Based on the best-selling book in the history of The New Press: Lies My Teacher Told Me has sold nearly two million copies since it first published. With the paperback reissue in September 2018, we expect Jim Loewen's classic to be as popular and well-loved as ever and for this adaptation to find a wide audience of young readers.
Adaptor's expertise: Rebecca Stefoff has tremendous expertise in adapting popular works of history (and science) for young readers, having adapted the works of Howard Zinn, Jared Diamond, and others. This fall, Simon & Schuster will publish her adaptation of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. She is well known in the all-important YA library market.
Platform: The author is nationally known for his scholarship and his unique take on the state of American history textbooks.
Speaking: The author lectures widely and his commentaries appear regularly on the History News Network. We will work with the author to get him to attend high-profile conferences of educators who will welcome and swarm to this book.
Continued praise: Lies My Teacher Told Me was recently lavishly praised by New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who credited Jim Loewen with having been an inspiration to him (along with The New Jim Crow) in taking down racist monuments in New Orleans.
