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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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940170470594 |
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| Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
| Publication date: | 06/18/2004 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Sales rank: | 800,194 |
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