
Lies My Teacher Told Me, 2nd Edition
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Narrated by:
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L. J. Ganser
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By:
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Dr. James Loewen
"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)
A new edition of the national best seller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author
Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times in the summer of 2006.
For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems, and calls out academic historians for abandoning the concept of truth in a misguided effort to be "objective". What started out as a survey of the 12 leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education".
In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should - and could - be taught to American students.
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That said it is definitely worth listening to and reading Loewen's deep analysis to come away with an understanding of why and what we should do about it.
I recommend this book highly to any and all people. wow!
This is an absolute "must read!"
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A More Accurate Lens on American History
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Wonderful
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An excellent critique on American text books
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A great read on until history once again
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Excellent study and critique
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As a normal white American male (I think I probably fit the definition of a “casual history buff” anyway), I was shocked by history/the truth/the REAL story about our Presidents, revered historical figures and explorers of of early America. It’s sure not what I learned anyway!
The discussion the author has with us during the time we spend together in the book really opened my mind and MADE me make regular challenges with myself about how I would react to history both past and present.
Yes, I’m sure paying a lot more attention to who says what and how they back up what they say! Time to question things, research history with further historical non fiction reading (oh darn 🤣, one of my favorite genres)
This was my first EVER Audible book and I loved it! I’m reading three other books and could have this in the background of my walks and when throwing tennis balls for my Golden Retreiver (I do a lot of both!).
4.5 rounded up to 5 because this should be required reading/listening for any American who thinks history is “boring”.
~Marty
I sure learned about America!
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MUST READ!!
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History matters
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Great book for the learner 
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