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Big lies : from Socrates to social media / Mark Kurlansky ; illustrated by Eric Zelz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thomaston, Maine : Tilbury House Publishers, [2022]Description: 309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0884489124
  • 9780884489122
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BJ1421 .K87 2022
Contents:
Entreaty -- Masked revelers in a carnival of lies -- The Enlightenment and the unenlightened -- Denial: the short way around science -- Favorite lies about women -- A snowball in France: the blame game -- Soviet mathematics: 2 + 2 = 5 -- The truth about American truth -- Big dictators and small lies -- Photographic lies -- Saving children: a best-loved lie -- The golden lasso of truth.
Summary: Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization; they corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside down, and reinvent history. The future stewards of our world require a how-to manual for seeing through big lies and thinking critically, because big lies require believers, and democracy depends on independent thought.
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Book Book Speedway New Books Area Young Adult Books YA 177.3 KUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 35550431753642
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Includes bibliographic references (pages 305-309) and index.

Entreaty -- Masked revelers in a carnival of lies -- The Enlightenment and the unenlightened -- Denial: the short way around science -- Favorite lies about women -- A snowball in France: the blame game -- Soviet mathematics: 2 + 2 = 5 -- The truth about American truth -- Big dictators and small lies -- Photographic lies -- Saving children: a best-loved lie -- The golden lasso of truth.

Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization; they corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside down, and reinvent history. The future stewards of our world require a how-to manual for seeing through big lies and thinking critically, because big lies require believers, and democracy depends on independent thought.

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