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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
4.04 AVERAGE
1.04k reviews for:
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
4.04 AVERAGE
I love reading the negative reviews of this book, because they're always like, "This is liberal propaganda with a huge bias to make you feel White Guilt!" and I'm like, "You know that, historically, certain groups of people have done some bonkers-ass shit that has been completely whitewashed from our textbooks, but you think it's bias to point out that it was often the same people over and over again?" Unreal.
This book is depressing and important as hell. Read it with Howard Zinn's History of the People.
This book is depressing and important as hell. Read it with Howard Zinn's History of the People.
What DO you actually learn in high school? What of the copious amounts of dates and names should be stressed, pedagogically? Which content is even remotely correct? How does the time in which a textbook is written affect the message in that textbook, and what kind of spin is coded into the pages? This book shines a light on all of these questions, and leaves one wanting to fight for truth to prevail, rather than regurgitated untruths. (5/5 stars)
Five stars for being crucially emphatic about comparing data, comparative views, and actually all the the things left out of USA history books. Accessible, and definitely you know someone who should read it.
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
listened as an audiobook - very long but well informed
Certainly not a page turner, but interesting enough.
This is one of the best history hooks I've read. Clear and honest. I highly recommend it
Everyone needs to read this book... it's not the end all be all but instead an eye opening invitation to learn more and more about our history that has been erased