The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America
Demonstrating the candor and conviction that have made him one of our most trusted and incisive public voices, The New York Times columnist Frank Rich brilliantly and meticulously illuminates the Bush administration's disturbing love affair with 'truthiness.' Rich's step-by-step chronicle shows...
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Demonstrating the candor and conviction that have made him one of our most trusted and incisive public voices, The New York Times columnist Frank Rich brilliantly and meticulously illuminates the Bush administration's disturbing love affair with 'truthiness.' Rich's step-by-step chronicle shows how, in the wake of 9/11, a propaganda president and his advisors misled a nation into war in Iraq and how the bungled aftermath, a Washington leak, and a devastating hurricane at long last revealed the lies in a story that had been so effectively sold to the nation as God-given patriotic fact.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143112341 (0143112341)
Publish date: August 28th 2007
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
American,
Economics,
Journalism,
War,
Military,
Politics,
Presidents,
Terrorism
Good book. Probably the biggest reason I don't rate this much higher has more to do with my late reading of the book. It being 2012 and all there isn't much of this that isn't common knowledge if you've even been half listening to current events. So really had I read this sooner I might have enjo...
The subtitle tells it all, “the decline and fall of truth from 9/11 to Katrina.” This book is about how the Bush administration, with their willing accomplices in the media have made a casualty of truth. It is not, as one might expect it to be, a compilation of his NY Times op ed pieces, but a well ...
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