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[this] Book Must Be Read Three Times: The First In Anger, The Second In Laughter, The Third In Respect....the Wisdom Is Expressed With A Certin Ruthlessness. Scarcly A Major Historian Escapes Unscathed.... This Is An Important Book, Perhaps The Most Import To Have Appeared In Recent Years, In Terms Of Helping An Entire Generation Of Scholars Who Profess To Have Lost Confidence In Being Historians. A Dose Of The Book Is Salutary, And Its Ultimate Message Is One Of Optimism, For It Demonstrates That Historians Do Have Honest, Important, And Even Pleasurable, Tasks To Do. -back Cover. Inquiry: Fallacies Of Question-framing; Fallacies Of Factual Verification; Fallacies Of Factual Significance -- Explanation: Fallacies Of Generalization; Fallacies Of Narration; Fallacies Of Causation; Fallacies Of Motivation; Fallacies Of Composition; Fallacies Of False Analogy -- Argument: Fallacies Of Semantical Distortion; Fallacies Of Substantive Distraction -- Conclusion. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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Author

David Hackett Fischer

Publisher

Harper & Row, Publishers

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061315459

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Reference, Philosophy

Rating

3.79 / 5 (282 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14