Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong,   ISBN:9780743296281

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This was bad experience. I NEVER received the book. There seemed to be no way to let Amazon know the book had never come. I'm a bit disgusted because I lost my money. I hope someone at Amazon sees this and does something about it. At this point, I can't rate this book.

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Another great book from James Loewen, along with "Lies Across America". Excellent book which gives a different perspective on history, and a more interesting one, in my opinion. Most of us who are not history students retain only what we were taught earliest, which means all that dumbed-down, glossed-over, boring stuff from elementary or middle school. This is an entertaining read, whether you are a history major, or not.

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A must read if you believe the upper class elite are running the country while suppressing the lower classes and minorities (and the CIA conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald to murder President Kennedy). American history text books and class content are merely a framework to support 400 pages of socialist ranting. I have never read a more biased book.

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This was an excellent book and I recommend it to anybody and everybody. I was a history minor in college, a business major, having decided not to teach history somewhere around my second year, I relegated my knowledge of history to something useful on trivia night. That is until the kids came around. I first realized there might be a problem with my son's education when he told me that Adolf Hitler had been a Genius, and that he had simply suffered from bad luck, later I heard that the Civil War wasn't about slavery, and even that Puritan settlers taught the Indians to farm and saved them from starvation...I had trouble believing that a teacher ever told my son such lies, and that he must be mistaken somehow; either way I began taking the education of my children much more seriously than our public schools do. In his book James Loewen takes on some of these myths, explains why they have persisted, and gives reasonable solutions for teachers and parents. He manages to present some new information (at least for me), and writes an extremely important critique of the textbook writing process and the approval process still used today. This book should be read by every parent and given as a gift to every teacher of History and Social Studies you can find. Teaching happy history doesn't make it so-lets teach our kids the truth so that they can engage the world with a clean slate.

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I bought this thinking it would have short stories. It reads like a text book. Not fun, not a good read.