What pop history book has done the most damage to the study of your particular subfield? : AskHistorians

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Question inspired by a tweet I saw yesterday related to the If Books Could Kill podcast (which is about "the airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds").

There's a lot of pop history books out there. Some of them are good, and many of them are not. Curious to know which one(s) have done the most damage to your field of study - or, alternatively, the pop history book that you have spent the most effort cleaning up after with your students, family, social circle, or people you argue with on the internet?

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