Lies My Teacher Told Me, 2nd Edition

By: Dr. James Loewen

Narrated by: 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.