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Article: History's Historian.(A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century)(Book review)
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- August 1, 2008
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JOHN BURROW. A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century. KNOPE. 544 PAGES. $35.00
"HISTORY," AMERICAN historian Dexter Perkins once cautioned, "is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity." This admonition is something of a commonplace, of course. Still, it leaps to mind as one wanders through John Burrow's monumental survey of Western historical writing, ranging as it does from Herodotus to the here-and-now. For A History of Histories reminds us that some of the most engaging personalities of ...