"If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer.
Ten thousand members of the AmericanHistorical Association will rush to the index and breathe a little easier to find their names absent..
Scarcly a major historian escapes unscathed.
His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the srcond in laughter, the third in respect....
The wisdom is expressed with a certin ruthlessness. "If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer