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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
giro_revuescope's review
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
Valuable for the most part but the author's credulosity towards a few fringe ideas (like the racist Olmec stone head skull shape 'theory') is very unfortunate. He would have done better with a few co-authors, since ironically for his complaints about textbooks the publishing house editors were clearly not equipped to fact check.
tessalaree's review against another edition
4.5
I had a great time with this book - I think textbooks, or maybe just my teachers, were a bit better in more recent years when I went through school. But the book still hit several lies I was told, or know that others were. I think it's so important to be critical about education and revise inaccuracies like this.