The Death of Truth
Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
by Michiko Kakutani
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and Philosophy.
A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason. Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects the dots to reveal the slow march of untruth up to our present m...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and Philosophy.
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Fareed Zakaria
“We all see that truth and facts have become endangered species, but we're not really aware of why and when it happened. It didn't start with Trump, argues Kakutani in this rich, erudite book. She brilliantly explains the cultural and political forces that brought us to our current sorry condition a must read.”
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