# How History Gets Things Wrong

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- Book: [How History Gets Things Wrong](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-rosenberg/how-history-gets-things-wrong) ([How History Gets Things Wrong.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-rosenberg/how-history-gets-things-wrong.md))
- Authors: [Alex Rosenberg](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-rosenberg)
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- ISBN: 978-02-6253-799-5
- Pages: 296
- Published: 2019-08-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...