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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
4.04 AVERAGE
1.03k reviews for:
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
4.04 AVERAGE
Unfortunately I could not get into this book and I actually couldn't really make it past the first few chapters. I was bogged down by the repetitive nature of the points that the author was trying to make.
Lies took me a very long time to get through, but it was certainly worth it. Beyond providing a historically accurate description of many events, it also analyzes why history is taught in such a way. I highly recommend this book for anyone who lives and learns in the United States.
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
I owned a copy of this long ago and can’t remember if I read it then, but it had a lot of good, current thoughts that apply to today’s political landscape.
challenging
informative
medium-paced
This is an interesting look at the sanitization of history in American textbooks. It demonstrates something that I guess the author thinks we are all too ignorant to know--that people who rise to notoriety may have other, and possibly negative aspects, to their behavior or attitudes.
I enjoyed learning such things as the history of the symbol of the eagle clutching arrows and an olive branch is a symbol of the Iroquois League and Ali's statement about his refusal to serve in the Vietnam War. However, I did not enjoy his lack of setting history in the norms of the day rather than judging them by current norms and expectations. Nor did I appreciate what I and others in my book club took as condescending comments regarding high school history teachers.
Perhaps some of these issues were covered at the end of the book, but I must admit that I was off-put by his attitude and will not finish.
I enjoyed learning such things as the history of the symbol of the eagle clutching arrows and an olive branch is a symbol of the Iroquois League and Ali's statement about his refusal to serve in the Vietnam War. However, I did not enjoy his lack of setting history in the norms of the day rather than judging them by current norms and expectations. Nor did I appreciate what I and others in my book club took as condescending comments regarding high school history teachers.
Perhaps some of these issues were covered at the end of the book, but I must admit that I was off-put by his attitude and will not finish.
Ugh. It was okay at first and then the chapters would be all over the place. It was hard to keep on track.
informative
medium-paced
Interesting, though my eleventh-grade history teacher recommended it to me.
I did not finish this book, I read to about halfway through the fourth chapter and although the topics were interesting the chapters were way too long for me and just kind of droned on!