The biographer finds that the past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.


Telling Lives: The Biographer's Art (1979, 1981)

Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

The biographer finds that the past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

The biographer finds that the past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

The biographer finds that the past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

The biographer finds that the past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.