- ISBN13: 9781595583260
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award, thoroughly updated for the first time since its initial publication to include textbooks written since 2000 and featuring a new chapter on what textbooks get wrong about 9/11 and Iraq.
Since its initial publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell one million copies in its various editions.
What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls “an extremely convincing plea for truth in education” beginning with the pre-Columbian period and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre.
In this revised and updated edition, James Loewen surveys six new high school history textbook… More >>
As a history teacher I thought this book could enlighten me, but really it only depresses me. According to Loewen, everything good about American history (and America) is a fake distortion by WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants)…wait a minute, America IS great! Columbus IS the first American hero. Washington SHOULD be honored. It IS okay for Peace Corps members to grow intellectually, even SPIRITUALLY; Vietnam WAS lost because a Democrat president escelated it, and hippy protestors gave aid and comfort to the enemy.
This miserable author is either a liberal Democrat, a former hippy, a member of Barack Obama’s church, a Marxist, or all of the above. Well, I’ll just pray and ask God to forgive him for wasting a bit of my life by reading “Lies My Teacher Told Me.”
Rating: 1 / 5
This was bad experience. I NEVER received the book. There seemed to be no way to let Amazon know the book had never come. I’m a bit disgusted because I lost my money. I hope someone at Amazon sees this and does something about it. At this point, I can’t rate this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this thinking it would have short stories. It reads like a text book. Not fun, not a good read.
Rating: 1 / 5
A must read if you believe the upper class elite are running the country while suppressing the lower classes and minorities (and the CIA conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald to murder President Kennedy). American history text books and class content are merely a framework to support 400 pages of socialist ranting. I have never read a more biased book.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is a revisionist history rant by a left wing sociologist. Loewn, and Zinn, who praises the book, are well known dissenters. They believe any and all dissent is good, regardless of whether it is true to the facts or not. And facts may be fabricated, sources misrepresented, to support their ‘progressive’ self-loathing drivel.
Rating: 1 / 5