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Review title: Self-righteous polemic
Product review: Regarding the title, the author ought to look up the meaning of the word "lie". It clearly means KNOWING, conscious dissembling. It doesn't mean misstating or disagreeing.Every profession is haunted by liars, cheats, and incompetents, but to state, without reservation, in one's title that social studies teachers en masse are liars is inexcusable. At heart it is self-aggrandizement as a way of promoting one's book via an outrageous title which, ironically, lies. Equally as bad as liars, perhaps worse, are self-righteous polemicists. Their mischief, promoted for the purpose of self-puffery, has been one of the banes of all societies from the dawn of civilization. Nothing feels so fine as the knowing certitude that you are right and everyone else (except Zinn) is wrong. Subtlety and ambiguity are the spices of history. The author needs to season his fare.
