Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (Modern Library Chronicles)

Margaret MacMillan, an acclaimed historian and "great storyteller" (The New York Review of Books), explores here the many ways in which history-its values and dangers-affects us all, including how it is used and abused. The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 and Nixon and Mao reveals how a deeper engagement with history in our private lives and, more important, in the sphere of public debate can guide us to a richer, more enlightened existence, as individuals and nations. Alive with incident and figures both great and infamous, including Robespierre, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Mao Zedong, Karl Marx, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and George W. Bush, Dangerous Games explores why it is important to treat history with care.

History is used to justify religious movements and political campaigns alike. The manipulation of history is increasingly pervasive in today's world. Dictators may suppress history because it undermines their ideas, agendas, or claims to absolute authority. Nationalists may tell false, one-sided, or misleading stories about the past. Political leaders might mobilize their people by telling lies. Adolf Hitler, for instance, blamed the Jews for Germany's humiliation at Versailles and its defeat in World War I. It is imperative that we have an understanding of the past and avoid the all-too-common traps in thinking to which many fall prey-as MacMillan skillfully illuminates. This brilliantly reasoned work will compel us to examine history anew, including our own understanding of it, and our own closely held beliefs. more

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-08-2009; Great read on the historical situation; MacMillan's call for historians to take back the discipline of writing and thinking about history is a welcome sight. For my own part, I'd have liked to have seen a bit more history in the work, however. Focusing as it does mainly on the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-08-2009; Useful; Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (Modern Library Chronicles)Shortly after I had started reading Dangerous Games I was about ready to give up on it. It did not seem likely that there would be many fresh insights in it,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-03-2009; The View of History from the Seminar Room; The content of the book is flat and one-dimensional. First, only political history of the 20th century is considered. There is no consideration of the use of the history of science or the history of the arts. In the history of science,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-26-2009; An important and enjoyable book; MacMillan is very smart. More important, she's very wise. That latter category informs all the thinking in this book and is what makes it well worth reading. (There's an oddly cranky review from earlier this month posted here. I don't...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-08-2009; Great read on the historical situation; MacMillan's call for historians to take back the discipline of writing and thinking about history is a welcome sight. For my own part, I'd have liked to have seen a bit more history in the work, however. Focusing as it does mainly on the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-03-2009; The View of History from the Seminar Room; The content of the book is flat and one-dimensional. First, only political history of the 20th century is considered. There is no consideration of the use of the history of science or the history of the arts. In the history of science,...; read full review | report as inappropriate