Misinforming a Nation

"Misinforming a Nation" by Willard Huntington Wright is a critical look at how British culture overshadowed American thought in the early 1900s. Wright believes that British critics unfairly judged American art, books, and learning, causing Americans to doubt their creativity and value British opinions more. The book starts by explaining how England used influence to control America's thinking for a long time. British leaders downplayed American accomplishments, pushing their biased views in schools and important books like the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." Wright points out that Americans and other non-British people were often left out or shown incorrectly, which hurt America's intellectual growth by making it follow British standards, diving deeper into how this affects different art forms like writing, plays, poems, and philosophical ideas.