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	The American Enterprise: "Live" with David Hackett Fischer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		FISCHER: I quoted in that book a British historian who said that what British readers want to know about Napoleon is whether he was a good or a bad man. People want that sort of simple answer to a complex question.
		FISCHER: During the 1970s and ’80s, the history sections moved to the back of the bookstore, and other disciplines in the universities cultivated non-historical or even anti-historical ways of thinking: They looked for timeless abstractions in the social sciences, or theoretical models in economics that transcended era and place.
		FISCHER: The main growth of liberty and freedom is the continuing expansion of the meaning of privacy—say, the expansion of freedom for gay Americans.
	www.taemag.com /issues/articleid.18966/article_detail.asp (2563 words)

	H.A. Scott Trask reviews David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Fischer argues that Washington’s success lay in his practice of convening war councils in which officers were permitted to speak candidly and advance their own ideas.
		Fischer terms it an “army of liberty.” There were backcountry riflemen from Virginia and Pennsylvania whose flag was the coiled rattlesnake and whose motto, “Don’t Tread on Me,” captured their ideal of individual liberty and self-reliance.
		Fischer’s narrative is at once a source of pride to old-stock Americans and of shame, for it reveals how far the character and liberties of this country have fallen.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /www/Chronicles/August2004/0804Trask.html (1768 words)

	American Revolution - Washington's Crossing, By David Hackett Fischer
		Fischer has managed to combine the two approaches, providing an overarching picture of the way armies move, with a genuine sense of what it looks and feels like to face a bayonet charge or to witness the man abreast of you disemboweled by a cannonball.
		Fischer's ability to combine the panoramic with the palpable is unparalleled in giving us a glimpse of what warfare back then was really like.
		For Fischer, Washington's decision to cross the Delaware on Christmas night 1776 and attack British and Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J., was a turning point in the Revolutionary struggle.
	www.americanrevolution.com /WashingtonsCrossingBook.htm (3327 words)

	Amazon.ca: Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Fischer's historiographical warning flags should be well heeded by those who want to perform careful research, or seek to write credible papers.
		Fischer took many of his fallacies (that is, their labels) from others; for example "tunnel history" from J. Hexter; "the fallacy of the hypostatized proof" from Perrll F. Payne; "the fallacy of the mechanistic cause" from R. McIver; and so on.
		Fischer is himself fallacious at one point, the fallacy involved being perhaps included somewhere under his categories (though I did not find it): it consists in regarding any trend as a change.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0061315451 (1216 words)

	Law Offices of David I. Fischer, Personal Injury, Oakland, California, lawyers attorneys
		Fischer has represented hundreds of claims for over 20 years and has extensive experience and expertise in negotiating fair settlements as well as successfully taking cases to artibtartion, mediation, and trial.
		Fischer serves as a Small Claims Court Judge and has gained experience in seeing both sides of issues, and therefore, is able to negotiate effectively and competently with insurance companies.
		Fischer is well-versed in the regulations and restrictions inherent in the Just Cause Ordinance (Measure EE) in Oakland, which details specific requirements for evictions in Oakland.
	davidifischer.lawoffice.com (379 words)

	In the Field: Featuring the Rev. David Fischer - For the Life of the World
		Fischer explained that for people who are not part of the Mormon culture, Redeemer and other Christian churches often serve not only as a place where they are fed spiritually, but where one has social needs met.
		Situated in a city that is known for its transient population, Rev. Fischer says the average member typically only stays a few years before they are either transferred out of the area due to a job change or they find they cannot adapt to the Mormon culture.
		Fischer says that the greatest challenge he has had to face since coming to Salt Lake City has not been the Mormon culture, but recognizing his own hypocrisy as a pastor.
	www.lifeoftheworld.com /lotw/04-04/04-04-04.php (1107 words)

	Amazon.com: Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History): Books: David Hackett Fischer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Above all, Brandeis historian Fischer (Albion's Seed) uses the Trenton campaign to reveal the existence, even in the revolution's early stage, of a distinctively American way of war, much of it based on a single fact: civil and military leaders were accountable to a citizenry through their representatives.
		And Fischer highlights a consequence of the American commitment to the ideals of liberty: while Hessians and even British troops were regularly offered to take no prisoners, the Americans in general during these campaigns treated their prisoners with compassion and even generosity because of their belief that it was the right thing to do.
		Fischer is vividly descriptive in his portraits of Washington and his officers, the Howe brothers and their principle officers, and the commanders of the Hessian forces.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195170342?v=glance (2886 words)

	Amazon.com: Paul Revere's Ride: Books: David Hackett Fischer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Particularly good is Fischer's (history, Brandeis Univ.) description of the civilian reaction to the British march to Concord and his exploration of the "spontaneous" rising of the New England militia to fight the British.
		Fischer's ulterior motive is to return contingency to its central importance in the historical process--to restore the "causal power of particular actions and contingent events." In the process he has written a meticulously researched and wonderfully evocative narrative that will be enjoyed by history lovers and scholars alike.
		Fischer wants us to feel just how chaotic Revere's ride and the subsequent battles of Lexington and Concord were, that while much had been planned in advance by both sides, there was little calculation and nothing was preordained.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195098315?v=glance (3019 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / A revolutionary view
		Fischer is not in a classroom, of course, although in range and productivity he might be in a class by himself.
		Fischer not only immersed himself in the primary English and German sources (including more than 100 Hessian accounts, most of which he says have never been used by historians), but also tramped the scenes where the battles occurred.
		Though his scholarship is widely, if not universally, admired, Fischer has ruffled feathers in his time, notably with his 1970 book, "Historians' Fallacies," in which he took some of his elders to the woodshed.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/02/16/a_revolutionary_view (1103 words)

	Oxford University Press: Washington's Crossing: David Hackett Fischer
		Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events.
		Mr Fischer, a professor of history at Brandeis University, is Mr McCullough's equal as a writer but superior in capturing the full historical picture.
		Fischer has devised a storytelling technique that combines old and new methods in a winning way...providing an overarching picture of the way armies move, with a genuine sense of what it looks and feels like to face a bayonet charge or to witness the man abreast of you disemboweled by a cannonball....
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/ColonialRevolutionary/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9MDE5NTE3MDM0Mg== (1133 words)

	Alexander Rose on David Hackett Fischer and Washington's Crossing on National Review Online
		David Hackett Fischer, the author of a bestseller, Washington's Crossing, while a dab hand at footnotes (he racks up 1,122), is the John Hodgson of the appendix.
		At a time when publishers are asking their authors to compress their scholarly apparatus, Fischer appends 24 appendices plus, for good measure, a fascinating 32-page essay on the changing historiography — how we perceive an historical event, as opposed to examining what actually happened during that event — of Washington's crossing of the Delaware.
		Raised to esteem a hierarchy of loyalty that began with one's extended kin and ascended to one's clan, and from there to the clan's chieftains and thence ultimately to the king, Highlanders, despite their occasional bouts of bolshieness, were really quite natural adherents to monarchism.
	www.nationalreview.com /rose/rose200407011011.asp (1498 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		Historian David Hackett Fischer, who has played a pivotal role in reviving popular and academic interest in American history and its lessons for the present, has been selected as the recipient of the American Enterprise Institute’s Irving Kristol Award for 2006.
		David Hackett Fischer was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where his father was superintendent of schools.
		Professor Fischer follows renowned Peruvian novelist and political thinker Mario Vargas Llosa as the 2006 recipient of the Irving Kristol Award--AEI’s highest award--which recognizes individuals who have made extraordinary intellectual or practical contributions to improved government policy or social welfare.
	www.aei.org /publications/filter.all,pubID.23715/pub_detail.asp (654 words)

	David Hackett Fischer Receives Pulitzer Prize
		David Hackett Fischer, professor of history at Brandeis University and a long-standing member of the AHA, has received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for history for his book, Washington's Crossing (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004).
		Fischer, who is a modern proponent of the "history of events" perspective on history, is well-known for his meticulous and methodologically rigorous reconstruction of famous events.
		Fischer told the Waltham, Massachusetts, Daily News Tribune that he used to think of himself as a professor and historian but that now he would like to think of himself as a "teacher and a storyteller."
	www.historians.org /perspectives/issues/2005/0505/0505new3.cfm (251 words)

	David Fischer's Music Sampler
		DAVID FISCHER is already a celebrity of sorts, but this 42-year-old composer/pianist's modest piece of fame has nothing to do with his music.
		When someone seems too impressed by all these cap-feathers, Fischer is quick to point out that life without a college degree has been a ride on a roller-coaster, not a cruise in a luxury sedan.
		During the early 1980s, Fischer tried stand-up comedy ("I failed by not being all that funny," he says) and spent the bulk of his musical energies on collaborations with his best friend, composer/guitarist and writer Joe Bess, who also happens to be the guy who fanned the early flames of Fischer's obsession with mushroom taxonomy.
	home.stny.rr.com /fisherfischer/music.html (1181 words)

	David Hackett Fischer on Bush's and Gore's Regional Heritages by Steve Sailer for UPI, 2000; "Albion's Seed," ...
		Fischer says, "Nader has a strong Puritan flavor, both in the ways he conducts himself and the positions he takes.
		Yet, his upbringing was split between summers on his father's Tennessee farm and school years among the elite of Washington D.C. Although Fischer cautions against reading too much into this opinion of his, he speculates that Gore's divided youth may have lead to his somewhat disconcerting tendency to use different personal styles at different times.
		According to Fischer, whites of the Deep South, who are the descendents of English aristocrats and their servants, hope their leaders are restrained men of gravity, in the monumental tradition of George Washington and Robert E. Lee.
	www.isteve.com /2000_David_Hackett_Fischer_on_Bush_and_Gore_Regional_Heritage.htm (956 words)

	Fischer Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		David Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak of revolution and the emergence of the American republic.
		Fischer has examined price records in many nations, and finds that great waves of rising prices in the 13th-, 16th-, 18th-, and 20th centuries were all marked by price swings of increasing volatility, falling wages, a growing gap between rich and poor, and an increase in violent crime, family disintegration, and cultural despair.
		Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Fischer (1103 words)

	Lehigh University - MS&E-s David Fischer wins Tarby Prize
		David S. Fischer '05, a materials science and engineering major, has received the Tarby Prize for achieving the best academic performance last year among Lehigh sophomores majoring in MSandE.
		Fischer, a native of Morganville, N.J., has recorded a cumulative GPA of 3.85, and a GPA of 3.89 in his major, during his first two years at Lehigh.
		Fischer is social director of his fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi.
	www3.lehigh.edu /engineering/news/tarbyprize.asp (172 words)

	David Hackett Fischer
		David Hackett Fischer is University Professor at Brandeis University.
		Fischer is co-editor, with James M. McPherson, of the Pivotal Moments in American History series published by Oxford University Press.
		Fischer earned his AB at Princeton University and his Ph.D. at John Hopkins University.
	www.ashbrook.org /events/colloqui/2004/fischer.html (346 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - David Hackett Fischer - Books: Meet the Writers
		A professor at Brandeis University, David Hackett Fischer is the author of several noted works that illuminate pivotal moments in American history, including Paul Revere's Ride and the 2004 National Book Award finalist Washington's Crossing.
		Fischer's riveting analysis examines the critical moment in U.S. history when George Washington crossed the Delaware -- effectively turning the tide of the American Revolution.
		In this penetrating history of America's founding ideals and how they have been understood from Colonial times to the present, Fischer uses visual images to demonstrate the different and sometimes opposing implications of "freedom" and "liberty." Illustrated in full color with a rich variety of images, it's an eye-opening work of history.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?z=y&cid=1305374 (347 words)

	Christian Child Sponsorship - Compassion - David Fischer, Limited Director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		David is a partner with the law firm of Lerners LLP in
		David is married to Barbara Craig and they have three daughters, with no grandchildren as yet.
		David enjoys running, skiing (when he has a chance), reading and live theater.
	www.compassion.com /about/board/fischerdavid.htm (218 words)

	David Hackett Fischer: Paul Revere's Ride (RJO's Reviews)
		Although the book’s title might suggest a narrow work, this is in fact a comprehensive account of the beginning of the American nation on April 19th, 1775.
		The quantity of primary source material that exists for this one day in American history is extraordinary, and Fischer and his students have processed it all in an exemplary fashion.
		Their close scholarship does not intrude on the reading text, but is instead displayed in comprehensive endnotes for those readers who wish to seek out further details.
	rjohara.net /reviews/fischer.html (402 words)

	Bobby Fischer Goes to War - David Edmonds and John Eidinow
		Bobby Fischer Goes to War is an account of the world championship showdown between chess players Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland, in the summer of 1972.
		Fischer claimed to be moved largely by greed, and getting him to play somewhere often involved paying him off.
		David Edmonds and John Eidinow are journalists for the BBC.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/sport/chess1.htm (1802 words)

	Oxford University Press: Paul Revere's Ride: David Hackett Fischer
		Beginning in the years before the eruption of war, Fischer illuminates the figure of Paul Revere, a man far more complex than the simple artisan and messenger of tradition.
		Fischer recreates Revere's capture that night, showing how it had an important impact on the events that followed.
		David Hackett Fischer is Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University.
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/CulturalStudies/AmericanStudies/HistoryPoliticsSociety/~~/c2Y9YWxsJnNzPWF1dGhvciZzZD1hc2MmcGY9NTAmdmlldz11c2EmcHI9MTAmYm9va0NvdmVycz1udWxsJmNpPTAxOTUwOTgzMTU= (851 words)

	Right Wing Nut House » AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID HACKETT FISCHER
		In the interview, Fischer also reveals several aspects of his personal politics as well as some fascinating thoughts on America today as it relates to America of 300 years ago.
		If it is anything like his other works I’ve read, I’m sure to look forward to a few sleepless nights as I take another journey with a master storyteller whose writing whisks us back in time so that we can live the lives of our ancestors and see the world through their eyes.
		Fischer is a rare bird: a gifted historian who is also a gifted writer.
	rightwingnuthouse.com /archives/2006/03/04/an-interview-with-david-hackett-fischer (1466 words)

	Michael Knox Beran on David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing on National Review Online
		Part of the answer to this question, Fischer suggests, lies in the choices made by the commander-in-chief of the American forces, George Washington.
		At the time, Fischer writes, "it was the largest projection of seaborne power ever attempted by a European state." On August 22 warships opened fire on what is now Brooklyn and 15,000 troops came ashore.
		He was, Fischer writes, "one of the most appealing figures of his generation." Like the Howes, he was a product of Eton; and before he took up his commission in the Grenadier Guards he studied military science at Turin.
	www.nationalreview.com /books/beran200404301421.asp (1444 words)

	Ronald David Fischer Citations at IDEAS
		Ronald Fischer & Rodrigo Gutiérrez & Pablo Serra, 2002.
		Ronald Fischer & Pablo González & Pablo Serra, 2003.
		Fischer, Ronald D & Serra, Pablo J, 1996.
	ideas.repec.org /e/c/pfi53.html (3430 words)

	O. David Fischer, CPA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Fischer is a Certified Public Accountant in the states of New York and New Jersey.
		Fischer is also an attorney at law, admitted to practice in New York State and New Jersey.
		Fischer was President of David Fischer and Company P.A. (“DFandCo”) from 1968 through October 2003.
	www.lazarcpa.com /ODF.htm (212 words)

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