Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

4.04 AVERAGE

bookem9's review against another edition

4.0
challenging informative reflective

lizziet18's review against another edition

5.0
I am so lucky I had an awesome teacher who went beyond the textbook and taught us critical thinking, but this book (written in the mid-1990s) is still pertinent today in showing the effects of dismal, watered-down American history on the perceptions and voting patterns of Americans today. A must-read for anyone interested in learning more about American History than they did in 11th grade.

nathhealor's review against another edition

4.0
informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

amoscardino's review against another edition

3.75
informative medium-paced

brandywoods's review against another edition

4.0
An excellent, eye-opening work. Should be required reading for all native-born Americans.
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desertjarhead505's review against another edition

5.0
A sort of traveling expose, debunking many of the instances in which history texts and classes have systematically censored history or twisted it into propaganda, both by telling lies and by leaving out significant events - putting image management ahead of honesty, apparently in the belief it is necessary to ensure students are properly patriotic. My daughter read parts of this book in junior high, and when she tried to share some of what she'd found out with one of her teachers, the teacher called her a liar (the story the teacher insisted was false was the true and well documented account of the induction of a sitting President, Warren G. Harding, into the KKK in a public ceremony at the White House.) A great counterweight to all the sanitized, often just plain lying picture of our country's history that most of our kids' schools offer in place of history taught honestly and appropriately.

marzipan951's review against another edition

3.75
challenging informative medium-paced

tarasmart's review against another edition

3.0
3.5 stars
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towering_tbr's review against another edition

4.0
I learned a lot from this book. Wasn't always enjoyable and I wanted to learn more facts about subjects not well known to me before but felt like this was really well-researched and held my attention most of the time.

mystic_fire's review against another edition

4.5
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