Book and Movie Reports by Ed

Book report: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, by James W. Loewen First off, this guy deserves a medal, because, to write this book, he had to read TWELVE high school American History textbooks in their entirety, a feat I’ll bet has never been attempted before or since. My guess is that his goal was to read an even twenty, but after he woke up in the hospital with his eyes bleeding, he decided to scale back his plans a little, to preserve his health and sanity. Lowen’s goal is to expose all the information that is incorrect or missing from American History textbooks, which leads to the first amazing fact this book presents: information is incorrect or missing from American History textbooks. My first reaction to learning this was outrage: you mean, they force us to learn this crap and it’s not even true? That’s right, it’s wrong. A lot. My second reaction was: how is this possible? How can you tell people things that aren’t true? Until I