<div>Since its first publication in 1995, <I>Lies My Teacher Told Me</I> has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions.<BR><BR>What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the <I>San Francisco Chronicle</I> calls “an extremely convincing plea for truth in education.” In <I>Lies My Teacher Told Me</I>, 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, and the Mai Lai massacre, 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.<BR><BR>This 10th anniversary edition features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author.</div>
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