A review by dietcokealp
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong by James W. Loewen

1.0

I truly do not get the high reviews. As a librarian, history major, and lover of social sciences I was excited for this book but found it truly boring. If this was the young readers' version I really would have hated to see the original. The writing was extremely condescending. Some of the criticisms of textbooks are fair, but it is unfair to blame teachers for the curriculum they are asked to teach.