Eric Alterman

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1. Joe Conason

   Author of Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth, The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton

2. Eric Alterman

   Author of What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News, The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America, When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences

3. Paul Krugman

   Author of The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations, The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s
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4. David Brock

   Author of Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy

5. Molly Ivins

   Author of Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

6. Kevin Phillips

   Author of American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath

7. Sheldon Rampton

   Author of Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America Into a One-Party State

8. Thomas Frank

   Author of What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

9. David Cay Johnston

   Author of Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else, Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
   All: (1 member)

10. Dave Marsh

    Author of Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s, Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story, Bruce Springsteen on Tour: 1968-2005

11. Glenn Greenwald

    Author of How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
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12. John W. Dean

    Author of Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, Conservatives Without Conscience, Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches

13. George Lakoff

    Author of Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives, The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain

14. Royce Flippin

    Author of The Best American Political Writing 2004, The Best American Political Writing 2003, The Best American Political Writing 2002

15. Jacob S. Hacker

    Author of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy

16. Ron Suskind

    Author of The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

17. Al Franken

    Author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

18. Chris Mooney

    Author of The Republican War on Science, Unscientific America

19. David Corn

    Author of The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception

20. Vincent Bugliosi

    Author of The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President