Lies They Teach in School: Exposing the Myths Behind 250 Commonly Believed Fallacies

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It is a cliche that history is written by the victors, but what we accept as history is replete with stories of great men and events that either never happened or didn't happen the way we were told they did. Such items are taught in schools. They are passed down to us by our families and friends and have become part of our shared cultural knowledge. And they are wrong. Touching on a number of topics- including history, current events, government, sports, geography, and popular culture-Lies They Teach in School exposes errors that have been perpetuated for far too long. It will enlighten and entertain. It will certainly start a number of arguments, and settle a few others.

Herb Reich spent fifteen years as senior acquisition editor at John Wiley & Sons. Before that, he administered the behavioral science publishing program at Basic Books and served as editorial director of the Macmillan Book Clubs. Along the way, he spent two post-grad years affiliated with the Research Foundation of the State University of New York; edited The Odyssey Scientific Library, and contributed to The Random House Dictionary of the English Language and the Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology. The author of Don't You Believe It!, he lives in Hastings-On-Hudson, New York.

As illuminating and funny a book as you can buy. --Dr. Theodore Millon, professor emeritus, Harvard Medical School