SOURCE: Brogan, Hugh. Review of That Noble Dream, by Peter Novick. English Historical Review 106 (October 1991): 1073-74.

In the following review, Brogan observes that That Noble Dream has much to teach historians about their own “intellectual fallacies.”

Nothing could be more elegant than Peter Novick's performance in That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession. Taking up the theme of the nature of historical knowledge (Is it objective or subjective? Are a historian's categories determined by his researches, or imposed by him on his material?) he uses it to make intelligible the development of academic history in the United States during the past century or so. Historiology is not everyone's cup of tea, but it can safely be asserted that this is a book which no one interested in the modern history of the United States can afford to ignore (for one thing, it is in...