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Review title: excellent examination of high school history texts
Product review: As a kid, I read history the same way I read simplistic fiction. The story washed over me, taking me along the obvious path. I enjoyed it, but it didn't really make me think. "Lies My Teacher Told Me" shows how textbooks shortchange a facinating subject and in the process shortchanges our kids. It examines what textbooks have to say about a few specific subjects and then looks at what is left out. As and example, Helen Keller was not just a brave blind-deaf girl but a radical socialist woman who helped form the American Civil Liberties Union. Talking about her adult life would involve looking at parts of our history that are not admirable, which is something that the textbooks avoid like the plague. I intend to give this book to my daughter so that she can understand the limitations of what she reads in school. Hopefully, she will want to look for more for herself.
