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Book Review of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong
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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.