narrative history
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His newest book is “The Long Run,” which discusses the 1970s running boom and is a narrative history of four who sparked the marathon boom: Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit Samuelson and Grete Waitz.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
Ms. Gibson’s “The Great Resistance” is a narrative history brimming with action, while Mr. Hazareesingh’s “Daring to Be Free” is a more measured and nuanced account of African resistance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
Anderson’s book is an artful mixture of ethnography, narrative history, in-depth interviews and legal scholarship.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2022
Her narrative history, published in 2021, centers the stories of people who haven’t always been given a prominent place or more than a mention in previous historical records, like Edward Moore.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022
There were about a million words worth of secret government and military documents, and another 1.5 million of narrative history written by the researchers.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
