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When Presidents lie : a history of official deception and its consequences / Eric Alterman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alterman, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political ethics--United States.
- Political ethics.
- United States.
- Presidents--United States.
- Presidents.
- United States--Foreign relations.
- International relations.
- Deception.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 447 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2004.
- Summary:
- - Alterman's Sound & Fury was a George Orwell Award winner; his Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive won the Stephen Crane Literary Award- What Liberal Media? and The Book on Bush were on The New York Times extended bestseller list
- Contents:
- On lies, personal and presidential
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and the Yalta conference
- John F. Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis
- Lyndon B. Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin incidents
- Ronald W. Reagan, Central America, and the Iran-Contra scandal
- George W. Bush and the post-truth presidency.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-432) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0670032093
- OCLC:
- 55657657
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