Making History Quotes

“voraciously”
― Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

“dubbed”
― Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

“the ‘minimalist’ view of the Bible as wholly fictitious, and unhooked from historical reality, may be as much of a mistake as the biblical literalism it sought to supersede.”
― Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

“One wonders why the Bible was ever taken literally; the Hebrews always understood the early parts of Genesis to be fables. The modern insistence on literalism is largely due to the influence of southern U.S. Protestants around 1910.”
― Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

“As the Italian saying has it, Se non è vero, è ben trovato—maybe it’s not true, it’s still a good story.”
― Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

“while in certain countries (Australia, for instance) keeping a diary could be a court-martial offense.”
― Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past