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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong
Author: James W. Loewen
ISBN-13: 9781565841000
ISBN-10: 156584100X
Publication Date: 3/2005
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 20 ratings
Publisher: New Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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mandi avatar reviewed Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong on + 45 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
A halarious review of history, like you've never heard it before. How history has been skewed to glorify presidents and leaders, and to put down others.
reviewed Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong on + 40 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Interesting info on historic events you may not have heard before.
reviewed Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong on + 31 more book reviews
Who knew?
wordyone avatar reviewed Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong on + 112 more book reviews
An interesting and enlightening book.
buzzby avatar reviewed Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong on + 6062 more book reviews
Hard to take at one sitting. Author seems upset that his reading of history isn't taught in textbooks. There can be different interpretations of events, and not all events can be put in a single textbook. Author's argument, I suppose, is that most textbooks' information is so insipid or wrong (e.g. Thanksgiving, Helen Keller) that it's counterproductive to have it in there.
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The ISBN for this book is very misleading - it is a paperback and the cover page is different.