Lies My Teacher Told Me For Young Readers: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

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James W. Loewen Rebecca Stefoff

Lies My Teacher Told Me For Young Readers

Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

James W. Loewen, Rebecca Stefoff

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The New Press
30 July 2019

History

Based on the best-selling book in the history of The New Press: Lies My Teacher Told Me has sold nearly two million copies since it first published. With the paperback reissue in September 2018, we expect Jim Loewen's classic to be as popular and well-loved as ever and for this adaptation to find a wide audience of young readers.

Adaptor's expertise: Rebecca Stefoff has tremendous expertise in adapting popular works of history (and science) for young readers, having adapted the works of Howard Zinn, Jared Diamond, and others. This fall, Simon & Schuster will publish her adaptation of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. She is well known in the all-important YA library market.

Platform: The author is nationally known for his scholarship and his unique take on the state of American history textbooks.

Speaking: The author lectures widely and his commentaries appear regularly on the History News Network. We will work with the author to get him to attend high-profile conferences of educators who will welcome and swarm to this book.

Continued praise: Lies My Teacher Told Me was recently lavishly praised by New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who credited Jim Loewen with having been an inspiration to him (along with The New Jim Crow) in taking down racist monuments in New Orleans.

By: James W. Loewen
Adapted by: Rebecca Stefoff
Imprint: The New Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Adapted edition
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9781620974698
ISBN 10: 162097469X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 July 2019
Recommended Age: From 12 to 18 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

James W. Loewen. 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.

Reviews for Lies My Teacher Told Me For Young Readers: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

Praise for Lies My Teacher Told Me Powerful .. it serves as a crucial counter-textbook to provide a more realistic and critical narrative about the American past. --Truthdig Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. --Howard Zinn A lively critique. --The New York Times Loewen's book contains so much history that it ends up functioning not just as a critique, but also as a kind of counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past. --The Nation Remarkable. --USA Today An extremely convincing plea for truth in education. --San Francisco Chronicle