Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me
By (Author) Wilfred Reilly
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
2nd October 2024
United States
General
Non Fiction
Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general
History of the Americas
Right-of-centre democratic ideologies
Centrist democratic ideologies
History of education
Home schooling
Social and cultural history
Indigenous peoples
Military history: post-WW2 conflicts
973.07
Hardback
272
Width 158mm, Height 236mm, Spine 22mm
403g
A college professor debunks the false liberal narratives which define much of Americas school curricula.
In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism, Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books.
But in the more than two decades that followed, false leftist narrativesas wrong as those they supplantedhave come to dominate American academia and education. Now, in the spirit of that original book, Professor Wilfred Reilly demolishes the academic myths propagated by the left. In Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me, he offers fresh angles on established events, turning what we think we know about the nations history on its head.
Reilly explains how there actually were communists in Hollywood; how the cultural stereotype of Native American culture as completely peace-loving is both untrue and patronizing; and how, while history was almost always bad for Black Americans, history was much worse for everyone than we realize.
Smart, irreverent, and deeply researched, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me will revolutionize our understanding of Americas past while offering a refreshing way to teach and think about history.