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''.
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