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Historians' Fallacie: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought

David Hackett Fischer

"If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the srcond in laughter, the third in respect....The wisdom is expressed with a certin ruthlessness. Scarcly a major historian escapes unscathed. Ten thousand members of the AmericanHistorical Association will rush to the index and breathe a little easier to find their names absent.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: Dec 30th, 1970
  • Pages: 368
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.30in - 1.00in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9780061315459
  • Categories: HistoriographyReferenceWorld - General

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Praise for this book

"An important book...in terms of helping an entire generation of scholars who profess to have lost confidence in being historians." -- New York Times Book Review

"Historians are in [Fischer's] debt for reaffirming the functional values of their profession. And readers are in his debt for an extremely entertaining book." -- New York Times