Lies My Teacher Told Me Author:James W. Loewen James Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying twelve leading high school textbooks of American history. What he found was an embarrassing amalgam of bland optimism, blind patriotism and misinformation pure and simple, weighing in at an average of four and a half pounds and 888 pages. — In response he has written Lies My ... more »Teacher Told Me, in part a telling critique of existing textbooks, but more importantly, a wonderful retelling of American history as it should--and could--be taught to American students.« less