![]() ![]() For A History of Histories reminds us that some of the most engaging personalities of the past can be found among its historians. ![]() 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. “ H istory,” 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. A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century. ![]()
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