In Lies My Teacher Told Me, what is James Loewen's opinion of the book The American Pageant?Im having trouble finding an opinion from reading his...

Overall, Loewen's opinion on Bailey, et. al.'s book is the
same as his opinion of most American history textbooks.  That is, he thinks that it is
full of facts, some of them wrong, instead of giving us ideas and analysis.  He thinks
that it tends to make American history look good instead of looking at things
critically.  It is, in other words, like all other history books he looks
at.

For a more detailed look at his opinion, you would need
to look in the index and then at each mention of The American
Pageant. You would find that he sees some good things and some bad things in
this book as compared to other books.  For example, on pages 45 and 46, he says that
this book is the only history book he looked at that still claims that Columbus's
sailors thought the world was flat.  On pages 213 and 214, he says the book's discussion
of American intervention in Haiti is more "naive" than that of other texts.  On the
other hand, pages 215 and 216 tell us that The American Pageant has
the most accurate account of American intervention in Iran in the
1950s.

So, Loewen thinks that this book is just as bad as
the other texts, but he also discusses more specific positives and negatives of the book
at various points in his work.