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A treat to read and a serious critique of American education.
Remarkable.
A lively critique.
Honest and well-written.
Loewen’s book contains so much history that it ends up functioning not just as a critique, but also as a kind of counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past.
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Revised and Updated
hardcover
$26.95 / £15.99
—Howard Zinn
Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions.
What started out as a survey of the twelve 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, and the Mai Lai massacre, 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.
This 10th anniversary edition features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author.
James W. Loewen is the bestselling author of Lies Across America, both from The New Press, among many other books and articles. He is a regular contributor to the History Channel’s History magazine. He is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, D.C.
Spring 2008
hardcover
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 464 pages
978-1-59558-326-0
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