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

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

Loewen was probably one of the first to look at American history and education in revisionist terms; the book frst came out in '95. I liked that he didn't give a whitewashed version or pick and choose what to cover. He chose what to cover based on what evidence and his experience indicated was lacking, basing it on topics that are most likely to be mythologized or simply lied about. 

The format of the book was great, starting with an example of hero worship gave the lens in which hed be looking at other events. The last few chapters covered the why and how of bad textbooks after the bulk of the books discussed the what/when/who.