基本信息出版社：Penguin (Non-Classics)
页码：464 页
出版日期：2005年10月
ISBN：0143036041
International Standard Book Number：0143036041
条形码：9780143036043
EAN：9780143036043
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 At a time when most Americans assume that their presidents lie to them, no book could be more essential than bestselling author Eric Alterman??s devastating analysis of the costs of executive duplicity. One of the best-known left-of-center journalist-historians in America, Alterman argues that those costs are not merely moral but practical. As examples, he uses four key lies told by presidents in the postwar era. From FDR at Yalta to LBJ in Vietnam, and from JFK in Cuba to Ronald Reagan in Central America, Alterman shows how attempts to mislead the American people ended up haunting their authors and dooming the very policies they were meant to advance. Closing with an examination of the Bush deceptions in Iraq, When Presidents Lie is history at its most compelling.
作者简介 Eric Alterman, media columnist for the Nation, is professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, senior fellow of the Center for American Progress, and "Altercation" weblogger for MSNBC.com. He is the author of five previous books, including What Liberal Media? and Sound and Fury.
媒体推荐 Essential reading not only for insiders but for outsiders. -- Former White House Counsel John W. Dean, Washington Monthly

Provocative, intriguing and insightful. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
编辑推荐 Provocative, intriguing and insightful. (Los Angeles Times Book Review) Essential reading not only for insiders but for outsiders. (Former White House Counsel John W. Dean, Washington Monthly)