narrative history
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The author’s historical range is formidable, with details giving what might have been a dry revisionist argument the texture of lively narrative history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
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
Anderson’s book is an artful mixture of ethnography, narrative history, in-depth interviews and legal scholarship.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2022
The narrative history explores Seattle’s history of homelessness and health care over the last 160 years to the present day.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 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
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