Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time, having won an American Book Award and sold nearly two million copies.

What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being a book the San Francisco Chronicle calls “an extremely convincing plea for truth in education.” Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should - and could -be taught to American student