James W Loewen

Broschiertes Buch

Lies Across America

What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

Beschreibung

From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me comes 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.s America.

Autor

James W. Loewen (1942–2021) was the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, Sundown Towns, and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. He won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Press
• Revised, Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9781620974339
• ISBN-10: 1620974339
• Artikelnr.: 53484733