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Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch using their heritage, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading senior school American history texts, he's figured not just one does a good job of creating history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing mixture of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit just about all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In ten powerful chapters, Loewen reveals that: America dropped 3 times as numerous a lot of explosives in Vietman because it dropped in most theaters of World-War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki Ponce de Leon visited Florida mainly to fully capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to obtain the mythical elixir of youth Woodrow Wilson, referred to as a progressive leader, was actually a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations The very first colony to legalize slavery wasn't Virginia but Massachusetts In the reality about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it the vitality and relevance it truly possesses.