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MAKING HISTORY - RICHARD COHEN TASCHENBUCH

MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of
certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar  William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - continue to
influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. In this authoritative and
entertaining book  Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally
significant witnesses (such as the writers of the Bible  major novelists  dramatists 
journalists and political propagandists) influence what become the accepted records of human
experience. Is there  he asks  even such a thing as 'objective' history? The depth of Cohen's
inquiry and the delight he takes in his subjects includes the practitioners of what he calls
'Bad History ' those thieves of history who twist reality to glorify themselves and conceal
their or their country's behaviour. Cohen investigates the published works and private
utterances of our greatest historical thinkers to discover the agendas that informed their
views of the world  and which in so many ways have informed ours. From the origins of
history-writing  when such an idea seemed itself revolutionary  through to television and the
digital age  MAKING HISTORY abounds in captivating figures brought to vivid life  from
Thucydides and Tacitus to Voltaire and Gibbon  from Winston Churchill to Mary Beard. Rich in
character  complex truths and surprising anecdotes  the result is a unique exploration of both
the aims and craft of history-making. It will lead us to think anew about our past and
ourselves.

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