The Best Of Our Knowledge #1616: Remembering James Loewen

By Bob Barrett

Published September 9, 2021 at 2:00 AM EDT

This week, we'll hear an archival interview with James Lowen from 2018.

Since it was first published in 1995, James W Loewen’s book “Lies My Teacher Told Me – Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong” has sold over 2 million copies. In 2018, a new edition of the book was released, with a new preface written by Loewen for what he calls the age of alternative facts. James Loewen died last month at the age of 79. Today, we are going to listen again to a conversation Bob Barrett had with Loewen in 2021 about the book.

We’ll also spend an Academic Minute with shockwaves.

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Bob Barrett

Bob has been a part of the WAMC family since 2001. He currently produces and hosts National Production's The Best Of Our Knowledge. Over the years, Bob has produced The Environment Show and The Health Show for National Productions and hosted weekend mornings on WAMC for a decade. In addition to producing TBOOK, he is currently a reporter and on air host at WUWF Public Radio at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.

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