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Loading... When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequencesby Eric Alterman
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. lkrier | May 11, 2007 |   The reader should remember that Alterman wrote "Bush's useful idiot" about Nader in Nation magazine, 2004. (  )investigations | Apr 7, 2007 | I learned a lot of history in general when reading this book and also that being a politician really means learning to lie with panache (unless you're Jimmy Carter) (  )rampaginglibrarian | Jul 3, 2006 | 0.025 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0670032093, Hardcover)Lying has become pervasive in American life—but what happens when the falsehoods are perpetrated by the Oval Office? As the lies told by our government become more and more intricate, they begin to weave a tapestry of deception that creates problems far larger than those lied about in the first place.Eric Alterman’s When Presidents Lie is a compelling historical examination of four specific post-World War II presidential lies whose consequences were greater than could ever have been predicted. FDR told the American people that peace was secure in Europe, setting the stage for McCarthyism and the cold war. John F. Kennedy’s unyielding stance during the Cuban missile crisis masked his secret deal with the Soviet Union. Misrepresented aggression at the Gulf of Tonkin by the North Vietnamese gave LBJ the power to start a war. Finally, Ronald Reagan’s Central American wars ended in the ignominy of the Iran-contra scandal. In light of George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, which Alterman examines in the book’s conclusion, When Presidents Lie is a warning—one more relevant today than ever before—that the only way to prevent these lies is America’s collective demand for truth. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:55 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Eye-opening, and a bit painful, this is the kind of stuff we should learn in history classes, in the hope that someday we can get some people in office who aren't corrupt and lying liars. (