Julian K. Prescott: A History of the Modern Age

"This is no conventional history. The events described are real, but the conversations, settings and explanations are invented, sometimes out of whole cloth, and the personages (many of them fictitious) move in and out of the action like characters in a complicated play." "Nonetheless, Prescott does what historians should do. He successfully gives us the substance, the underlying meaning of historical events as they transpired before his eyes." "And so he raises anew the questions: What is history? What is an objective rendering of the past? Perhaps Prescott's History more closely approximates the truth - the insanities of modern politics and affairs of state - than those that pass themselves off as 'true.'' from the biographical note by Professor Neal F. Morrison. The author under a pseudononymous name is currently a professor of history at one of the leading institutions of higher learning.