Lies My Teacher Told Me, 2nd Edition

De: Dr. James Loewen

Narrado por: L. J. Ganser

"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself." (Howard Zinn)

A new edition of the national best seller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author

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 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 New York Times in the summer of 2006.

For 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". What started out as a survey of the 12 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 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, Loewen 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.

©2018 James W. Loewen (P)2019 Recorded Books

Game changer ! A must read to start reprogramming

So much of what we were taught in school history classes were exaggerations, half truths, or all out LIES! This book reveals the misdirection in an easy to understand way. It’s too much to process it n one read so long term study will happen with this awesome resource. Thank-you is all I can say. If you’re on the fence, get this book!!!

INCREDIBLE material, not well performed

I’m going to have to sit and read this one- the material is so engrossing that I kept listening in spite of the poor (boring) narration.

one of the most important books for any American

one of the most important books any American can read...excellent. a real eye opener

An Amazing Work

I have to listen a second time. I appreciate people who scrutinize history and examine what is being taught to young people, who are the future. For that, I thank the author.

Very informative, Love it.

This book is mind blowing and make you want to research history more. I recommend it to all.

Good, but different

Seems to be more in depth on fewer topics, from what I recall of the first one all those years ago.

At ~10:19 the narroator clears his throat. I thought it might be intended 'theater', but probably not. Audible should probably get it fixed.

Incredibly Important Read

The result of learning that much of true American History was NOT taught during my public education has caused both disillusionment and a burning desire to relearn history from the perspective of excellent scholarship and knowledgeable educators.

Every American must read this!!

Wow! I wish Dr Loewe was my history teacher! I had read Roots before my high school history class, and was appalled by the white washing of slavery. In retrospect, I think the class should be more appropriately “ white man worship and his wars”. It was tedious and dull. I would have loved a sociological lens, and one that told us more about our diversity. I had to learn about Asian American history and all thdd we interesting stuff on my own.

I’m very grateful for Dr Loren for writing this important book. Clearly it was a monumental effort. And so insightful! We as a country can only get better if we are willing to see the reality of our past, and learn from our mistakes.

Second edition worth the read

I enjoyed the first time I read this book! It made me delve deeper into the story of American history which is especially relevant to me because I am an immigrant, as is my husband. But the second reading is even more relevant especially after a year of introspection because of COVID-19.

America will never learn from its mistakes if teachers are not allowed to teach about them.

I purchased the first edition of this book back in 2001 while visiting the American History Museum at the Smithsonian. As one who never loans a book with the intent of getting it back, I hope that the nucleus of what is this book conveys; that history should be inquiry based and that it DEFINITELY should make you uncomfortable at times, has spread to as many others as the book’s structural integrity allowed. Additionally, facing our nation’s past head-on, warts and all, should serve as a call to action to each citizen that wants to move the ball forward as a society. James Lowe’s spells out several historical cases, that for the majority of Americans, are relatively unknown. These cases are not brought to light with the purpose of wanting the reader to have guilt or remorse, but to paint a more vivid and controversial historical tapestry that should raise a number of inquiries when used properly in education. As a teacher I have taken a proverbial page from this and have made researching historical controversy paired with platforms like philosophical chairs, and Socratic seminars, a core component to how I help change students’ perspective on this subject. (And that’s just in 5th grade 🤓) A seriously engaging read delivered with humor and scholarship.