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Sales Track: Perennially bestselling author James Loewen, whose Lies My Teacher Told Me has sold nearly two million copies; Lies Across America has sold over 20,000 copies to date in paperback
New relevance as the nation struggles over the memorials of the Civil War in places like Charlottesville, in its ongoing reckoning with white supremacy, this book is more important than ever, and has already attracted renewed attention
Updated material: this edition will be wholly updated and reworked, with dedicated researchers verifying what has changed and what hasn’t on the American landscape, including changes and updates across each chapter. It also includes a rewrite of the analysis and theory that Loewen uses to understand these issues
Mitch Landrieu has become a spokesperson for this book, as he writes and tours across the country talking about confederate memorials
Author promotion: Loewen continually speaks at venues, especially universities, across the country, and regularly writes for History News Network and other outlets.
New relevance as the nation struggles over the memorials of the Civil War in places like Charlottesville, in its ongoing reckoning with white supremacy, this book is more important than ever, and has already attracted renewed attention
Updated material: this edition will be wholly updated and reworked, with dedicated researchers verifying what has changed and what hasn’t on the American landscape, including changes and updates across each chapter. It also includes a rewrite of the analysis and theory that Loewen uses to understand these issues
Mitch Landrieu has become a spokesperson for this book, as he writes and tours across the country talking about confederate memorials
Author promotion: Loewen continually speaks at venues, especially universities, across the country, and regularly writes for History News Network and other outlets.
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James W. Loewen
James W. Loewen (1942–2021) was the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, Sundown Towns, and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. He won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.
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