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Lies My Teacher Told Me
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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This book is ideal for students, educators, and anyone interested in a more accurate and nuanced understanding of American history beyond conventional textbook narratives.
A new edition with a new preface by the author of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, which has sold over two million copies.
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A completely revised edition of James W. Loewen's classic retelling of American history, based on six new textbooks and including an all-new chapter on the recent past
Since its first 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 has sold over a 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." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should—and could—be taught to American students.
This new edition also features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author.
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ISBN: 9781620973929
Publisher: The New Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 July 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: The New Press
Edition: Revised Edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 480
About the Author
James W. Loewenhas won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. He is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, DC.
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