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"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.

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"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

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper & Row, Publishers; 1st edition (January 1, 1970)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Perfect Paperback ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061315451
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061315459
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.83 x 8 inches

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David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. The recipient of many prizes and awards for his teaching and writing, he is the author of numerous books, including Washington's Crossing, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history.

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Excellent work combining both humor and logic.

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2021

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This book is necessary for all students of history but professors as well.
Where the mechanics of history are taught, this should be listed on the syllabus as a required text.

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Should be required reading!

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2022

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A very interesting and informative book that will guide you as life’s journey continues to intrigue you.

Attention all Thinkers:

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2005

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I was recently introduced to the author's "Washington's Crossing." Quite impressed and informed, I read his book on Paul Revere's ride. Now I'm eating him up. Since "fallacies" was written 35 years ago, and his Washington book just recently, Professor Fischer seems to have been able to practice what he preached.

This book reminds me of Mortimor Adler's "How to Read a Book" (the original--not the van Doren amplification; or Alfred North Whitehead's "Modes of Thought" or Barbara Hernstein-Smith's "Contingencies of Value." These much read books of mine seem to be called upon, every so often, to reacquaint me with the ways of encountering an event or a process. Fischer probably could have shortened the book by combining a few of his fallacies, but his ways of seeing are myriad and his way of writing clear.

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A new look at an old classic

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2016

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Fischer's irreverent look at the historical profession is still almost as fresh as when it was published nearly a half-century ago. For teachers interested in fostering student learning about historical investigation, this is still one of the best places to start.

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A book for historians

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2016

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I have to blame myself for not looking carefully into what this book is. After reading Wahington's Crossing, another book by David Hackett Fisher, and finding it to be one of my favorite books ever, I looked for other works by the same author. I was under the mistaken impression this was a book about historical fallacies. It's not; it's a book about the fallacies historians commit in doing their research and presentations. If you're a historian, this is probably a great book for you, but it's not light reading.

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Commendable goal, poor follow through

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2005

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I used Fischer's book in my Master's thesis. I had to not only go through it with a fine-toothed comb, but I also had to look up the sources Fischer claims made fallacious arguments. Although Ficher has a praise-worthy goal for his book, he falls short of meeting this goal (L.O. Mink discusses this in great detail in his review of Fischer's book). Fischer often incorrectly attributes the label "fallacy" to some parts of texts. In order to qualify as a logical fallacy, the text *must* be making a conclusion based on evidence that does not support that conclusion. Fischer frequently labels things as fallacies that are not drawing any conclusion or even making an argument, particularly in his section on analogy fallacies.

Moreover, Fischer commits some pretty egregious errors in identifying fallacies; he mislabels a number of fallacies. In some cases, he has skewed an author's words in order to find a fallacy.

I think Fischer's book brings to light an issue in historiography that too many historians are not aware of; however, his work is riddled with errors. Hisotrians should read this text should follow on with a text on logic.

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Keep a copy on your night stand.

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2018

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No scholar should be without this immense contribution to knowledge.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2019

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Any serious historian, or even the random person who likes to read history, should read this book!

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A great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2016

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A super book outlining how logical fallicies play themselves out in narrative.... He's an analytical historian who considers that some value can be taken from studying the past although it's not easy; To understand causality he suggests how questions are better as opposed to why questions. Why questions by their nature are more trancendental unanswerable and abstract!

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