num_pages: 338
description: "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 second in laughter, the third in respect....The wisdom is expressed with a certain ruthlessness. Scarcely a major historian escapes unscathed. Ten thousand members of the American Historical Association will rush to the index and breathe a little easier to find their names absent.
language: English
title: Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
titlecomplete: Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
genres: Logic, Politics, Philosophy, Education, World History, American History, Nonfiction, History, Skepticism, Journalism
ratings_count: 419
publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers