Untruth Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong

Name: Untruth Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong
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ISBN: 9780812991642

ISBN-10: 0812991648

ISBN-13: 9780812991642

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Authors: Robert J. Samuelson

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In Untruth, Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why our political, economic and cultural debates so routinely traffic in misinformation--popular fads that, like meteors, momentarily burn brightly in public consciousness and then fizzle out. Advocacy groups, politicians and their unwitting allies in the media instinctively create agendas of problems that afflict society and must be "solved".The problems are often exaggerated and oversimplified, and the result is that the public is misled about what is wrong and how easily it can be made right. Untruth is the first collection of Samuelson's insightful assaults on the conventional wisdom. Included are columns…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/6/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

In addition to "Newsweek and the "Washington Post, Robert J. Samuelson's columns are syndicated to about 40 U.S. and 20 foreign papers by "The Washington Post Writers Group. He is the author of "The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945-1995. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife, Judy Herr, and their three children, Ruth, Michael and John.