Tangled Webs How False Statements Are Undermining America: from Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff

Name: Tangled Webs How False Statements Are Undermining America: from Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff
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ISBN: 9780143120575

ISBN-10: 0143120573

ISBN-13: 9780143120575

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Authors: James B. Stewart

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Bestselling author James B. Stewart investigates our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic. America faces a crisis: an explosion of perjury and false statements occurring at the highest levels of business, politics, sports, and culture. In Tangled Webs, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James B. Stewart applies his investigative reporting and storytelling skills to four dramatic cases, all involving people at the top of their fields: Martha Stewart, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Barry Bonds, and notorious financier Bernard Madoff. Stewart draws on extensive interviews with participants-many speaking here for the first time- and previously…

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List price: $30.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.56" wide x 8.44" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

James B. Stewart lives in New York.



Introduction


Martha Stewart


"Can I Go Now?"


"Everyone Is Telling the Same Story"


"A Conspiracy of Dunces"


I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby


"This Is Hush-Hush"


"All the Reporters Know It"


"Double Super Secret Background"


"A Cloud over the White House"


Barry Lamar Bonds


"I'm Keeping My Money"


"Everybody Is Doing It"


"You re a Snitch"


Bernard L. Madoff


"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"


"Some People Feel the Market"


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes and Sources


Index