Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me
Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula
Wilfred Reilly
- A
- college
- professor
- debunks
- the
- myths
- that
- have
- infiltrated
- America's
- school
- curricula.In
- 1995,
- James
- W.
- Loewen
- penned
- the
- classic
- work
- of
- criticism
- Lies
- My
- Teacher
- Told
- Me,
- a
- left-leaning
- corrective
- that
- addressed
- much
- of
- what
- was
- sanitized
- and
- omitted
- from
- American
- history
- books.But
- in
- the
- decades
- that
- followed,
- false
- leftist
- narratives—as
- wrong
- as
- those
- they
- supplanted—have
- come
- to
- dominate
- American
- academia
- and
- education.
- Now,
- in
- the
- same
- spirit
- but
- updated
- for
- 2024,
- Wilfred
- Reilly
- demolishes
- the
- scholastic
- myths
- propagated
- by
- the
- left,
- uncovers
- fresh
- angles
- on
- “established”
- events,
- and
- turns
- what
- we
- think
- we
- know
- about
- history
- upside
- down.
- Among
- the
- popular
- lies
- he
- debunks:Lies
- My
- Liberal
- Teacher
- Told
- Me
- sets
- the
- record
- straight
- on
- many
- of
- these
- myths,
- explaining
- that
- there
- actually
- were
- communists
- in
- Hollywood;
- that
- many
- Native
- American
- tribes
- were
- cannibals,
- owned
- slaves
- and
- made
- them
- march
- the
- Trail
- of
- Tears
- with
- them;
- and
- that
- history,
- while
- almost
- always
- bad
- for
- Black
- Americans,
- was
- much
- worse
- for
- all
- of
- us
- than
- we
- tend
- to
- think
- it
- was.Smart,
- irreverent,
- and
- deeply
- researched,
- Lies
- My
- Liberal
- Teacher
- Told
- Me
- will
- revolutionize
- your
- understanding
- of
- history
- and
- reveal
- a
- new
- and
- refreshing
- way
- to
- teach
- and
- think
- about
- the past.
