John Lewis Gaddis - The Landscape Of History: How Historians Map The Past

This work by Gaddis is likened to the work of the great E.H. Carr who not only was the first political scientist to use the term ''realism'' as a reaction to idealism, the dominant theory of the time, but Carr was a journalist and historian. Carr argued against empiricism in history in his classic What Is History? which is a must-read for any academic who handles facts. His famous quote was ''study the historian, not the history'' because he believed that a historian would develop bias that would deter the truth in their findings, rather than viewing a scenario from the past objectively and free of bias. Carr was also a bit of a radical and was once labeled by a critic a ''shocking old Soviet apologist''.