David Hackett Fischer

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December 02, 1935

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David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. His major works have tackled everything from large macroeconomic and cultural trends (Albion's Seed, The Great Wave) to narrative histories of significant events (Paul Revere's Ride, Washington's Crossing) to explorations of historiography (Historians' Fallacies, in which he coined the term Historian's fallacy).
He is best known for his major study, Albion's Seed, which argued that core aspects of American culture stem from several different British folkways and regional cultures, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History), a narrative of George Washington's leadership of the Continental A...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 3,090 ratings · 450 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Washington's Crossing 4.19 avg rating — 1,589 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America 4.25 avg rating — 532 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Paul Revere's Ride 4.08 avg rating — 551 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Champlain's Dream 4.08 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought 3.73 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1970 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History 3.84 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideals 4.12 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	The Story Of The New York Yankees 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:

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“Fiddlesticks!” Rall replied. “These clodhoppers will not attack us, and should they do so, we will simply fall on them and rout them.”58 (on describing that they had nothing to fear from the COlonists of New Jersey before the night of December 25, 1776; when Washington and his men crossed the Deleware.)”
― David Hackett Fischer

tags: 1776 , deleware , history-politics-historyofpower , revolutionary-war , united-states-of-america

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