Article in the NY Times comparing Jon Stewart’s America: The Book favorably (?) against today’s school history textbooks:
With a sendup of social-studies textbooks that is not merely for students, Stewart and the ”Daily Show” satirists have a lesson for champions of ”civic renewal”: thanks to all the partisan pugilism, kids are being served sanitized pablum in school — and that’s hardly a recipe for energizing our citizenry.
…Yet these satirists are definitely on the kids’ side. …it’s real textbooks that are a waste of time and money …The ”Daily Show” satirists are on to the deeper problem: the reductive, defensive spirit that pervades the whole textbook endeavor, with traditionalists and revisionists alike trapped into totting up inches devoted to Liliuokalani versus Lincoln. It’s readers who are truly short-changed
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