books.google.co.uk - Events which become historical, says Michael Kraus, do not live on because of their mere occurrence. They survive when writers re-create them and thus preserve for posterity their otherwise fleeting existence. Paul Revere's ride, for example, might well have vanished from the records had not Longfellow...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Writing_of_American_History.html?id=rPQSU37xB74C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Writing of American History
