{"product_id":"lies-my-teacher-told-me-everything-american-history-textbooks-get-wrong-hardcover","title":"Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames W. Loewen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRebecca Stefoff\u003c\/b\u003e (Adapted by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most important--and successful--history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction children's writer who adapted Howard Zinn's bestseller \u003cem\u003eA People's History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e for young readers, makes Loewen's beloved work available to younger students.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssential reading in our age of fake news and slippery, sloppy history, \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition\u003c\/em\u003e cuts through the mindless optimism and outright lies found in most textbooks that are often not even really written by their authors. Loewen is, as historian Carol Kammen has said, the history teacher we all should have had. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and then covering characters and events as diverse as the first Thanksgiving, Helen Keller, the My Lai massacre, 9\/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen's lively, provocative telling of American history is a counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past (\u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis streamlined young readers' edition is rich in vivid details and quotations from primary sources that poke holes in the textbook versions of history and help students develop a deeper understanding of our world. \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition\u003c\/em\u003e brings this classic text to a new generation of readers (and their parents and teachers) who will welcome and value its honesty, its humor, and its integrity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames W. Loewen\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling and award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLies Across America\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSundown Towns\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition\u003c\/em\u003e (all from The New Press). He also wrote \u003cem\u003eTeaching What Really Happened\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White\u003c\/em\u003e and edited \u003cem\u003eThe Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader\u003c\/em\u003e. He has won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. Loewen is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758320517408,"sku":"9781620974698","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0067035edbda9782ca9a725c52d9c905.webp?v=1780123056","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lies-my-teacher-told-me-everything-american-history-textbooks-get-wrong-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}