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Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 901.8
EAN: 9780061315459
ISBN: 0060904984
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: January 30, 1970
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: December 30, 1970
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Editorial Review:
"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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent book but should be read thoughtfully
This is an excellent book. Will try not to be repetitious. As a reader you should be mindful about Mr. F assumptions. Mr. F is an empiricist and this greatly affects his characterization of some of the fallacies. Mr. F is fallacious by his own standards in this respect. The other assumption that undergirds his work is pluralism. I do thank Mr. F for accepting the idea that in order for some of these fallacies to exist you have to make certain assumptions(in his conclusion). I would simply caution ... Read More
Rating:  - For all writers and all readers
This sentence and the dotted line and below added 6/9/08.
Fischer's goal is to improve the writing of history by teaching historians
how to avoid many common errors. Other reviewers have observed that writers
in other social disciplines could use many of the same lessons. Still others
have expanded the audience that could benefit to readers. I second their claim.
This is a very useful book for everyone that writes to explain to others, or
to persuade ... Read More
Rating: - Belongs on every historians reference shelf
I have just read Fischer's work and have ordered my own copy. In my specialty I have read many works that commit many of the fallacies that Fischer describes. I am going to read this book carefully again, both to improve my work and to better understand that of others. Folks who run history graduate education programs need to attend to Fischer's concerns. Editors of scholarly journals and series need to read this again to better inform their work.
Rating: - Entertaining/instructive catalogue of historians' errors
Though hardly an earth-shattering assessment of the state of the historians' art, ca. 1970, HF is nonetheless a useful and not infrequently entertaining disquisition on the perils and pitfalls of fallacious reasoning in historical argumentation. DH pulls no punches, assembling a dense catalogue of errors of divers type, by type, that have been committed by a wide range of historians (mostly practitioners of US history). The result is a bit of slog, not quite the systematic set of logical guidelines ... Read More
Rating: - One of the best treatments of Historical understanding.
Having read this book several times, Fischer's insight is not fallacious. I have lent it to friends and never get the copies back. That is why I do not lend books and have two copies of this title.
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