Lies My Teacher Told Me

Not sure I by this book story. The author compares the “real” story with 12 textbooks. It's all over the place and I think inconsistent logic. For example, he spends a fair about of time about the racism of Woodrow Wilson then complains that the textbooks don't mention it. I say “so what”. It was not key to his presidency and in 1900's most people were pretty racist in post civil war years. I don't consider that a “Lie My Teacher Told Me”. But he goes on and on about Christopher Columbus and the plague and how people “idolize” him. This one I do agree the there is LOTS of false information that needs to be corrected. My summary is that most of what he complains about is not the purpose of the discussion in textbooks anyway. It's more a matter of opinion in how much they could add in the context of a textbook but not really “Lie's”.