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The Heroification of American historical Figures It is hard to think of a figure in the history of America who has been portrayed as an evil person who was out to hurt our grand country other than a few obvious figures. As students, we are bombarded by positive images of everyone from our first president George Washington to our current president George W. Bush. While there is nothing wrong with pointing out the amazing accomplishments of these men, there is a problem with our current view of most of our history. We as Americans have a skewed image of our past; due to the poor representation by most textbooks, many “famous” Americans, who were actually sneaky and cruel people, are seen as heroes because of the fact that most textbooks tend to heroify many people. “Heroification, a degenerative process that makes people over into heroes.” This definition is taken directly from Loewen. IN his preface and his first chapter, he goes in depth to try and explain how he feels that most people are made out to be someone that they are not. Now, it is not as simple as that, there are many things that need to be taken into account. He feels that this takes place in the majority of Americans history books and is quite