Paperback Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong Book

ISBN: 0965003175

ISBN13: 9780965003179

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

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A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award-winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history."--Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated--and more timely than ever--version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: - a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising - a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia - the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0965003175

ISBN13:9780965003179

Release Date:January 1999

Publisher:New Press

Length:480 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

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Rated 4 stars
Very valuable and interesting book

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 10, 2009

For all the shrill complaints, you'll notice no one points out any errors in this book. Indeed, most of the factual history in the book is solid and not even seriously debated by historians. For example - numerous memorials notwithstanding - all serious historians agree that the Confederates, not the Union, burned Richmond and many other Southern cities as they abandoned them. I learned a lot from this book, and I haven't...

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Rated 4 stars
Take with you on next vacation

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 21, 2008

This book is a eye opener. It can get a bit boring just reading straight through. My recommendation is take it with you the next time you go on vacation and try to find some of these sites listed in the book.

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Rated 5 stars
There She Is, Myth America...

By Thriftbooks.com User, August 15, 2001

Let me preface this by telling you that I think that the scientific method can be used to do good history; I read Skeptic Magazine; I think that Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond and Born To Rebel by Frank J. Sulloway are two of the best pieces of history writing done in recent years. I want to know what REALLY happened in the past. Lies Across America by James W. Loewen helps to teach us history as it was, not how we'd...

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Rated 5 stars
An Impressively Accurate History Text

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 14, 2000

After reading some of the reviews here, I was a bit concerned that perhaps Mr. Loewen might have skewed his history a bit to help make his admittedly entertaining points. While the book's essays are copiously footnoted, and each essay contains its own bibliography (often running to half a dozen or more citations even for a small three or four page essay), some of the criticisms of Mr. Loewen's work still gave me pause. Since...

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Rated 5 stars
Outstanding scholarship

By Thriftbooks.com User, August 8, 2000

This was an AMAZING book. It gives markers and monuments real faces: that is, the faces of the men, women, and organizations who organize and fund said sites and markers to make sure their version of "history" remains on the landscape. Especially telling are the voluminous markers to the Confederacy, continually romanticizing and ultimately misrepresenting its true origin and purpose, as well as those monuments to whites'...

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