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Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought Perfect Paperback – January 1, 1970
| David Hackett Fischer (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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- Print length338 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper & Row, Publishers
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1970
- Dimensions5.31 x 0.83 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100061315451
- ISBN-13978-0061315459
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #153,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #95 in Historiography (Books)
- #145 in Historical Study Reference (Books)
- #154 in History Encyclopedias
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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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Where the mechanics of history are taught, this should be listed on the syllabus as a required text.
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.
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.



