{"product_id":"book-dgj5","title":"Lies My Teacher Told Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eSince its first publication in 1995, \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e has become one of the most important―and successful―history books of our time. Having sold nearly 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 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eFor this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems and calls out academic historians for abandoning the concept of truth in a misguided effort to be “objective.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eWhat started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e calls “an extremely convincing plea for truth in education.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, the My Lai massacre, 9\/11, and the Iraq War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eLoewen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49378017149232,"sku":"BDdgj5","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49378017182000,"sku":"ZEdgj5","price":55.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49378017214768,"sku":"ZMdgj5","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/344549-dgj5-Square.jpg?v=1734926219","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dgj5","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}