Lying in State
by Eric Alterman
Book Details
| Narrator: | Sean Patrick Hopkins |
| Length: | 12 hrs and 29 mins |
| Release Date: | 08-11-20 |
| File Size: | 335.53 MB |
| File Type: | .zip |
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Description
This definitive history of presidential lying reveals how our standards for truthfulness have eroded – and why Trump’s lies are especially dangerous.
If there’s one thing we know about Donald Trump, it’s that he lies. But he’s by no means the first president to do so. In Lying in State, Eric Alterman asks how we ended up with such a pathologically dishonest commander in chief, showing that, from early on, the United States has persistently expanded its power and hegemony on the basis of presidential lies. He also reveals the cumulative effect of this deception – each lie a president tells makes it more acceptable for subsequent presidents to lie – and the media’s complicity in spreading misinformation. Donald Trump, then, represents not an aberration but the culmination of an age-old trend.
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