Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
By James W. Loewen
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This national best-seller and American Book Award winner is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. James W. Loewen, a distinguished critic of history education, puts 12 popular textbooks under the microscope. What he finds is a proliferation of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, misinformation, and flat-out lies filling the pages.
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This national best-seller and American Book Award winner is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. James W. Loewen, a distinguished critic of history education, puts 12 popular textbooks under the microscope. What he finds is a proliferation of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, misinformation, and flat-out lies filling the pages.Author
Author Bio: James Loewen
James W. Loewen (1942-2021) was the author of bestseller and award-winning book Lies My Teacher Told Me, among others. He 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 was a regular contributor to the History Channel’s History magazine and was a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont.
Author Bio: Dr. James Loewen
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Runtime: | 14.46 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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