Making history : the storytellers who shaped the past /
"A fascinating, epic exploration of who gets to record the world's history -- from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns -- and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2022.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Overture: The monk outside the monastery
- The dawning of history: Herodotus or Thucydides?
- The glory that was Rome: from Polybius to Suetonius
- History and myth: creating the Bible
- Closing down the past: the Muslim view of history
- The Medieval chroniclers: creating a nation's story
- The accidental historian: Niccolò Machiavelli
- William Shakespeare: the drama of history
- Zozo and the marionette infidel: M. Voltaire and Mr. Gibbon
- Announcing a discipline: from Macaulay to von Ranke
- Once upon a time: novelists as past masters
- America against itself: versions of the Civil War
- Of shoes and ships and sealing wax: the annales school
- The red historians: from Karl Marx to Eric Hobsbawm
- History from the inside: From Julius Caesar to Ulysses S. Grant
- The spinning of history: Churchill and his factory
- Mighty opposites: wars inside the academy
- The wounded historian: John Keegan and the military mind
- Herstory: from Bān Zhāo to Mary Beard
- Who tells our story? From George W. Williams to Ibram X. Kendi
- Bad history: truth-telling vs. "patriotism"
- The first draft: journalists and the recent past
- On television:from A.J.P. Taylor to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.