Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen
Non-Fiction / History
Lies My Teacher Told Me
by James W. Loewen
—· 405 p· 1994
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Overview
About
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…
Pages
405
Distributed by Norton
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Historical Critique10
Textbook Analysis10
Narration8
Prose7
Pacing7
Emotional depth6
Worldbuilding3
Plot twists2
My journey
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