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Beyond the Big Lie
The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democrac
Bill Adair(0)
About
Bill Adair, Pulitzer Prize winner, journalism professor, and founder of Politifact, presents an eye-opening and engaging history of political liars and a vision for how to make them stop.
Bill Adair knows a lie when he hears one. Since 2008, the site he founded, Politifact, has been the go-to spot for media members and political observers alike to seek the truth in an increasingly deceitful world. Since the site's launching, politics' tenuous relationship with the truth has only gotten weaker-and weirder.
Now, Adair explores lying in politics through the story of Nina Jankowicz, President Biden's would-be lead truthteller who was taken down by organized disruption from the right. Utilizing this case as a lynchpin, Adair reveals the insidious nature of the dark networks of lies online, the organized lying of DC think tanks, the conscious erosion of truth fostered over time by increasingly bold liars, and has some fun along the way as he highlights some of modern history's "greatest" liars, from Exxon/Mobil and big tobacco to Donald Trump and Lyndon Johnson. Finally, Beyond the Big Lie offers insightful and actionable advice to finally put an end to political deceit in this country once and for all.
Bill Adair knows a lie when he hears one. Since 2008, the site he founded, Politifact, has been the go-to spot for media members and political observers alike to seek the truth in an increasingly deceitful world. Since the site's launching, politics' tenuous relationship with the truth has only gotten weaker-and weirder.
Now, Adair explores lying in politics through the story of Nina Jankowicz, President Biden's would-be lead truthteller who was taken down by organized disruption from the right. Utilizing this case as a lynchpin, Adair reveals the insidious nature of the dark networks of lies online, the organized lying of DC think tanks, the conscious erosion of truth fostered over time by increasingly bold liars, and has some fun along the way as he highlights some of modern history's "greatest" liars, from Exxon/Mobil and big tobacco to Donald Trump and Lyndon Johnson. Finally, Beyond the Big Lie offers insightful and actionable advice to finally put an end to political deceit in this country once and for all.