Lies Across America What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
- List Price: $15.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 11/01/2000
Description:
In a highly original tour of the country, award-winning author James Loewen uncovers a landscape littered with misinformation, distortions, and downright lies. They are all right out in the open, displayed in the commentary, written and oral, that introduces over 100 historical sites in every state. An inveterate truth-seeker, Loewen points out that the Jefferson Memorial misquotes the Declaration of Independence; that the USS Intrepid (the feel-good war museum) touts its role in World War II but makes no mention of its three tours in Vietnam; that guides at Hyde Park are forbidden to answer questions about FDR's mistresses; and that in the language of historical preservation, the term "massacre" applies only when whites are killed while Indians are always "savage".
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Like Lies My Teacher Told Me, which has sold over 300,000 copies in all editions, Lies Across America raises serious questions about how we write history. From recommendations for official recognition of neglected events, sites, and individuals, to a list of markers that deserve immediate toppling, Loewen proposes new ground rules for the way we mark the landscape and observe the past.
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