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Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen [PDF] Free Download

About the book

“Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself.”
—Howard Zinn

 Since its first distribution in quite a while, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most significant—and effective—history books of our time. Having sold about 2,000,000 duplicates, the book additionally won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was proclaimed on the first page of the New York Times. 

For this new version, Loewen has included another introduction that shows how lacking history courses in secondary school help produce grown-up Americans who think Donald Trump can take care of their issues, and gets out scholastic antiquarians for forsaking the idea of truth in a confused exertion to be "objective." 

Lies My Teacher Told Me | PDF | Free Download

What began as an overview of the twelve driving American history textbooks has wound up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely persuading request for truth in training." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in the entirety of its multifaceted nature and vagueness. Starting with pre-Columbian history and running over characters and occasions as different as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the primary Thanksgiving, the My Lai slaughter, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an educational investigate of existing textbooks, and a great retelling of American history as it should—and could—be instructed to American understudies.

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