Lies My Teacher Told Me

What is the writing style of James W. Loewen in "Lies My Teacher Told Me"?

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Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen consists of acknowledgements, an Introduction ("Something Has Gone Very Wrong"), twelve numbered chapters, and an afterword. An appendix listing the twelve American history textbooks Loewen surveys throughout the text is followed by extensive end notes providing bibliographic references and many choice bits of information that do not fit the running narrative. These are well worth reading. Finally, there is an adequate author/subject index.

Each chapter is introduced by an unusually large number of epigrams that prepare the reader to appreciate ways the subject matter covered could be approached in high school textbooks of American history, but are not.

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