The Chronicle of Higher Education
THE SHORT LIST

The Most Influential Books

The Chronicle asked four scholars to discuss the book or books that have most influenced their fields.

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A NEO-CONSENSUS IN HISTORY

Peter Charles Hoffer, a professor of history at the University of Georgia and author of Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History (PublicAffairs, 2004):

This is a tough one, since so much...

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