Untruth
Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
6 March 2001
Summary
In Untruth, Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why our political, economic and cultural debates so routinely traffic in misinformation–popular fads that, like meteors, momentarily burn brightly in public consciousness and then fizzle out. Advocacy groups, politicians and their unwitting allies in the media instinctively create agendas of problems that afflict society and must be “solved”.
The problems are often exaggerated and oversimplified, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812991642 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0812991648 |
| Author: | Robert J. Samuelson |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 6 March 2001 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 19mm |
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About The Author
Robert J. Samuelson
Robert J. Samuelson’s columns are syndicated to about 40 U.S. and 20 foreign papers by The Washington Post Writers Group. He is the author of The Good Life and Its Discontents- The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945-1995. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife, Judy Herr, and their three children, Ruth, Michael and John.
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