Fallacy #1

Big man history is bad, but Cesar Chavez was great.

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Plutarch's Lives are biographies about great men. They are intended to teach young budding leaders how significant people managed their human frailties, accomplished great things, and succumbed to or overcame great tragedies. The biographies are useful.

Many moderns denounce big man history, but gladly venerate Cesar Chavez and promote articles, books and movies about him.

It's one thing to choose your heroes and another to discredit a historical method.

Admit that biographical histories are valuable and that 'big man history' is an integral part of the humanist's pedagogy. I'm looking at you social historians.