The Death of Truth
Notes on Falsehood in an Age of Trump. Tim Duggan Books, 2018.
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A riveting account of how the shifting media landscape, explosion in online news and willful manipulation by Russia have polarized politics and made the truth unfashionable, echoing the claims of postmodernist academics and totalitarian propagandists.
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Who should read The Death of Truth
Politics buffs • conspiracy theorists • those worried about the future • historians • people interested in literature • social media users
About the author of The Death of Truth
Michiko Kakutani is the former chief book critic at The New York Times, where she worked for over thirty years, and whose reviews aided the success of writers like Zadie Smith and David Foster Wallace. She is a Yale graduated, worked at The Washington Post as a reporter, and has a Pulitzer Prize in literary criticism.
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