How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories

by Alex Rosenberg

Book Overview

Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired.

To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It's not just incomplete or inaccurate but deeply wrong, as wrong...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262537990
• ISBN13: 9780262537995
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher