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  • Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me

  • Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula
  • By: Wilfred Reilly
  • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
  • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (100 ratings)

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Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me

By: Wilfred Reilly
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
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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:

  • “The ‘Red Scare’ was a moral panic that caught no commies”
  • “Native Americans were peaceful people who spent all day dancing”
  • “European colonialism was—empirically—a no-good, terrible, very bad thing”
  • “The racist ‘Southern Strategy’ turned the South Republican”
  • “The Vietnam War was unpopular and pointless”

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.

©2023 Wilfred Reilly (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers
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slavery

as a history major, I am very glad to know the ideas discussed in this book. Excellent research. can't wait to finish this.

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Great variety of information

I liked how this book touched on current events, but is more so a deeper dive into the history of these topics. I found it very educational

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Setting the record straight

An excellent presentation of facts by a researcher that counters the narrative of advocates. Fifteen word minimum.

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I suspected it, Now I know

I grew up in a liberal democrat family and school district. as I got older I started to discover there was more to a lot of the things I was taught in school, especially when it came to slavery in this country. this book is very eye opening.

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Much Needed Facts

This detailed book is about what really happened in America, we don’t hear about. I didn’t learn much of this in school in the 70’s. I knew there was more to the stories about slavery and the Indians in America we generally hear about now days, but needed to find the truth. Our county school board chairs almost always repeats 1/2 truths of history. They are all one sided. All whites are racist, guilty and the problem to everything.
I say we are only humans no matter color of skin or where we come from.

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Different Perspective

Things are never as straightforward as people would have you believe. A good example is the constitutional compromise that slaves be counted as 3/5 of a person. It turns out that Slave owners wanted to count slaves fully and the northern states wanted them counted as 0/5. It’s obvious as to why once the author points it out. The book is full of these types of examples. While a left leaning person would benefit from reading this book, I suspect it would drive them crazy. Conservatives would love this book.

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One of the best books I have ever read.

Wilfred is that demon that democrats hate the most - a black conservative that exposes the lies the leftist national socialist elite in America have been pushing for decades.

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Supporting data to older claims

Professor Reilly is not covering new ground here. These are common countervailing arguments to old left of center assertions. What Professor Reilly does do is collect the new pertinent data that seldom ever gets equal representation by the wider academic society or the media & drags it into the light much to the consternation of those who wish to sell you their narrative.

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Excellent

I love WR. He’s smart and non partisan. He writes well. He’s witty. I’ll buy and read any book he writes.

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Depth of detail in book

A very pleasant treat to hear a different side of the liberal argument. Well done!

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