Rosenberg, Alexander,  1946- <br/><br/>
How history gets things wrong :  the neuroscience of our addiction to stories / 
Alex Rosenberg. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  The MIT Press,  2019. 
 - 289 p., [8] p. of plates :  ill. (some col.), maps. 
<br/><br/> Reprint. Originally published: 2018. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Besotted by stories -- How many times can the German Army play the same trick? -- Why ever did Hitler declare war on the United States? : That's easy to explain, too easy -- Is the theory of mind wired in? -- The natural history of historians -- What exactly was the Kaiser thinking? -- Can neuroscience tell us what Talleyrand meant? -- Talleyrand's betrayal : in inside story -- Jeopardy! "question" : "It shows the theory of mind to be completely wrong" -- The future of an illusion -- Henry Kissinger mind reads his way through the Congress of Vienna -- Guns, germs, steel--and all that -- The Gulag Archipelago and the uses of history -- The back(non)story. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262537995 (pbk.) 0262537990 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychohistory.<br/>Cognitive neuroscience.<br/>History, Modern --Psychological aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D16.16  / .R67 2019