Greatest Story Ever Sold The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America

Name: Greatest Story Ever Sold The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America
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ISBN: 9780143112341

ISBN-10: 0143112341

ISBN-13: 9780143112341

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Authors: Frank Rich

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When America was attacked on 9/11, its citizens almost unanimously rallied behind its new, untested president as he went to war. What they didn't know at the time was that the Bush administration's highest priority would be to consolidate its own power at any cost. As only he can, "New York Times" columnist Frank Rich brilliantly and meticulously illuminates the White House's disturbing love affair with "truthiness." His step-by-step chronicle shows how the nation was misled into war in Iraq and how the bungled aftermath, a Washington leak, and a devastating hurricane at long last revealed the lies in a story that had been so effectively sold to the nation as God-given patriotic fact.

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.39" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Frank Rich served from 1980 to 1993 as the chief drama critic for The New York Times and since 1994 has been an op-ed columnist at the paper. He lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Alex Witchel.



Introduction



Making the Sale



"Home to the Heartland"



"Dead or alive"



"I don't think anybody could have predicted..."



"You don't introduce new products in August"



"Mission Accomplished"



Buyer's Remorse



"We found the weapons of mass destruction"



"Slam dunk"



"Reporting for duty"



"When we act, we create our own reality"



"I don't think anybody anticipated..."


Epilogue: The Greatest Story Ever Sold



What the White House Knew and When It Knew It: Time Lines of the Selling of the War


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index