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Summary: Cool Beans
Review: This book is a must read for everybody. I learned so much about American history that is not covered in our text books, for instance did you know that Hellen Keller was a socialist if not then you had better read this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: An invaluable aid for critical thinking
Review: This book should be distributed along with the typical American history textbooks not just to students, but to teachers as well. While shrill voices are heard decrying Afrocentrism or feminism, this book capably provides evidence of Eurocentric tunnel vision in the teaching of American history. In a nation undergoing Balkanization in so many ways, this book provides a meaningful explanation to U.S. woes. Thought provoking not merely because it takes the veneer off sugar-coated myth, but also because it provides a reasonable solution and alternative.
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Summary: A must read book for any person living in the United States.
Review: This book is not only excellent because of its content but because of the way in which it can show the reader to develop an inquiring mind. I would recommend this book on a short list of "must read" volumes for any person who considers him/herself "educated" and who is an American living in the United States.
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Summary: History revised for a specific agenda.
Review: This book does exactly what it complains about. The focus is on the author's personal agenda and, once again, history is distorted to support a personal opinion rather than presenting well documented facts. People reading this are advised to seek out original sources from the particular period and come to a more informed viewpoint rather than letting others distort America's interesting and colorful past.
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Summary: The most essential read I've seen
Review: This book fascinated me like no other book I've run across. I was literally slack-jawed while reading it. I was so impressed, that I created a web page for it!
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Summary: FABULOUS, the BEST EVER!!
Review: This book really made me question my education as a high school student. Thank god my history teacher had red this book already because otherwise we would have gotten it all wrong. Not only does this book give you possible variations on the traditional American history, but it teaches you that all literiture must be taken with a grain of salt. There are too many times where students are taught events or situations as facts instead of this is probably true but maybe, just maybe in the past 200 years someoone might have gotten the facts confused. It is important to teach students to think for themselves and not be spoonfed the traditional information. I believe that Mr. Loewen's book does just that, and more. If you do not believe everything he discribes in his book then he has just you have just learned to think for yourself, and that is an invaluable lesson. THANK YOU!!
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Summary: A Great Critique of History Textbooks
Review: This book was one of the most interesting and surprising books I read. And most of the inaccuraces are true... many of the things he points out were confirmed by my AP history teacher and were incorrect or not mentioned in our textbook. I strongly recommend it to any students or anyone who is interested in history (or even those who aren't!)The book editorializes somewhat on some of the stuff, but the author encourages you to check out the stuff he says for himself and not to just trust him blindly. There is also a great list of ideas and resources for history teachers at the end of the book and footnotes for almost all the facts mentioned. Read this book!
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Summary: Don't bother.
Review: Excuse me. As a parent of a student who just finished a year course in high school US History I would be the first to admit that history books need improvement and that the slant is not always accurate. I am, however, fed up with those who would have us studying PC History and this seems to be what this guy endorses. No thank you.
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Summary: Incredible substance, but a tad too preachy.
Review: This book enlightened me more than words can say. I was, up until I read this book, an ignoramous, US History wise. I don't want to send a long and preachy review about this book, so I'll simply make one last point: Buy this book if you want to learn about many of the previously unmentioned (at least I hadn't encountered any) truths about American history. American History teachers, this textbook is a MUST! The one nadir that I encountered while reading this book was the repetitive preachiness of the author. That's the single reason as to why I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5. (I wish 4.5 was an option, but alas, it is not)
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Summary: ...so that's why i fell asleep in history
Review: This is the first non-fiction account of history that I have not put down after the first 100 pages. Loewen does not meander in his writing, nor does he 'dumb' down the text for his 'non-historian' readers. And I think his occasional slips to the left of the political spectrum made me read the book in a more critical manner, with an eye to the facts, than I would have were it written by someone who embraced my own political agenda. This book is NOT an American History book. It is a critique of the history taught by American textbooks, with corrections (backed up with extensive sources) of the areas textbooks most commonly gloss over, ignore, or mislead. I was fascinated.
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