I recently read The Devil’s Historians and I cannot praise this book highly enough. The only reason I give it two thumbs up is because I lack more thumbs.

This book is a brilliant analysis of how people use history to craft extremist narratives, and it uses plain language,  rather than academic jargon, to explain how it is done. The book clarifies that although people “tend to think of history as rigid and fixed … history is not the same thing as the past.” There are facts about the past, but ...