Lies My Teacher Told Me
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The New Press
Published:26th Jul '18
£12.99
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Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold over two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times in the summer of 2006. For this new edition, Loewen has added a new introduction that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems.
Praise for Lies My Teacher Told Me:
"Powerful . . . it serves as a crucial counter-textbook to provide a more realistic and critical narrative about the American past."
—Truthdig
"A treat to read and a serious critique of American education."
—Award Citation, American Book Award
"Remarkable."
—USA Today
"A lively critique."
—The New York Times
"Honest and well-written."
—Harper's Magazine
"Loewen's book contains so much history that it ends up functioning not just as a critique, but also as a kind of counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past."
—The Nation
"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."
—Howard Zinn
ISBN: 9781620973929
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480 pages