Lies My Teacher Told Me

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

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 over 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 introduction that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems.

  • Format: Paperback | 480 pages
  • Dimensions: 156 x 230 x 30.48mm | 657.71g
  • Publication date: 02 Aug 2018
  • Publisher: The New Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Edition Statement: Reprint
  • ISBN10: 1620973928
  • ISBN13: 9781620973929
  • Bestsellers rank: 126,075

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