作者:
James W. Loewen 出版社: Touchstone 副标题: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 出版年: 1996-09-03 页数: 384 定价: USD 16.00 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780684818863
Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or ...
Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In ten powerful chapters, Loewen reveals that:
The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth
Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations
The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts
From the truth 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.
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2 有用 solrex 2009-05-21 22:35:56
其实我是听完了，且没有完全听懂并理解，也还在重复听，但出于削减我“在读”列表的需要，我还是很虚伪地把它标为“读过”。
0 有用 转 2017-07-30 10:20:03
这个夏天读完的一本刺激和开眼界的书。英文新版对照着中文的pdf读，要不然很多大词真看不懂。作者带着很强的情绪，或多或少影响了他一些观点的可信度。然而他介绍的大部分信息都是有根据的。
0 有用 poulain 2011-10-11 23:19:34
文化的原因，那些个lies本来就不知道，也就没感觉了
0 有用 NullPointer 2009-12-22 00:16:42
读的pdf版电子书，作者爱玩笑爱揶揄，不过算谑而不虐，对于一个要揭露邪恶教科书蒙骗世人的书来说，简直是温和极了——作者指出历史充满了分析，探究和辩论；历史并不因为成为课本就变作真相和事实。作者带我们闪到一个又一个被神化而变得扁平的历史人物背后，包括回到需要你的判断力工作的史料中间。
0 有用 biubiu 2021-09-08 15:26:07
看着挺爽的，但觉得此书有些为了颠覆而颠覆。
0 有用 robin & cabin 2022-12-15 15:00:33 江西
推荐给了还没有对基督教文明怯魅滴中学生和大学生
0 有用 车裂小可爱 2022-02-02 17:14:26
听了一遍，sabe
0 有用 艾瑟芮亚 2021-11-24 07:59:14
第一次读美国历史就被老师推荐了这么精彩的一本，个人非常喜欢这种揭露白人英雄主义的完美形象的不完美的视角，让人看到了美国历史中被忽略的细节问题和充满争议的种族歧视的起源与发展（虽然这种发展是一种悲哀）。所谓的最好的总统和最完善的体制也没有想象中那么好，看完反而更能理解如今美国社会的各种动摇和动乱的根源所在。
0 有用 biubiu 2021-09-08 15:26:07
看着挺爽的，但觉得此书有些为了颠覆而颠覆。
0 有用 啊啊提 2020-08-02 23:37:08
看这本书最大的困难是每隔10页都要和朋友讨论半小时……sample了两个室友 分别在IL和MD，Catholic私校和公立读的高中，US hist都学了比较全面的topic 比如precolumbian，slavery/white supremacy，US meddling other countries‘ affairs 所以感觉还有些欣慰？不过另一个在TX上的高中的朋友就很讨厌Sherman