The Post-Truth Era: Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life

The Post-Truth Era: Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life
ISBN-10
0312306482
ISBN-13
9780312306489
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2004-10-03
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
Ralph Keyes

Description

The best-selling author of Is There Life After High School? reveals the pervasiveness of deceitful behavior in American society, drawing on current research to explain why people lie and tolerate dishonesty on a daily basis, and profiling the deceptive behaviors of such figures as journalist Jayson Blair and professor Joseph Ellis. 20,000 first printing.

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