
Lying in State
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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.
Full of vivid historical examples and trenchant analysis, Lying in State is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we arrived in this age of alternative facts.
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- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- EPIGRAPH
- A NOTE ON DEFINITIONS
- Introduction: How Could Trump Happen?
- 1 "The Serpent's Eye That Charms but to Destroy"
- 2 "Yankeedoodledum"
- 3 Franklin D. Roosevelt: The "Juggler"
- 4 Harry Truman Fights a "New Fanatic Faith"
- 5 Dwight Eisenhower's "Legacy of Ashes"
- 6 John F. Kennedy and the "Right" to Lie
- 7 Lyndon Johnson's "Credibility Gap"
- 8 Richard Nixon: "It's a Win. See?"
- 9 Gerald Ford: A Time for More Lying
- 10 Jimmy Carter "Will Never Lie to You"
- 11 Ronald Reagan: America's "Magic Totem"
- 12 George H.W. Bush: Don't Read His Lips
- 13 Bill Clinton: Defiling the Temple of Justice
- 14 George W. Bush: "We're History's Actors"
- 15 Barack Obama vs. the "Propaganda Feedback Loop"
- 16 Donald Trump's License to Lie
- 17 "What You're Seeing and What You're Reading Is Not What's Happening"
- Conclusion: System Overload
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- DISCOVER MORE
- NOTES
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ALSO BY ERIC ALTERMAN
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