The best war ever : lies, damned lies, and the mess in Iraq / Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.

By:

Rampton, Sheldon, 1957- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Stauber, John C. (John Clyde), 1953- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1585425095
9781585425099

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

956.70443 21

Contents:

Introduction : the innocents abroad -- Ch. 1. The victory of spin -- Ch. 2. The plame game -- Ch. 3. Big impact -- Ch. 4. Our man in Baghdad -- Ch. 5. Rewriting history -- Ch. 6. Not counting the dead -- Ch. 7. The mirage of victory.

Review: "Here is a vital account of what transpires when a government believes its own deceptions and the news media fails to challenge them. The Best War Ever is about a conflict that was devised in fantasy and lost in delusion. It highlights the futility of lying to oneself and others in matters of life and death. And it offers lessons to the current generation so that, at least in our time, this never happens again."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-246) and index.

"Here is a vital account of what transpires when a government believes its own deceptions and the news media fails to challenge them. The Best War Ever is about a conflict that was devised in fantasy and lost in delusion. It highlights the futility of lying to oneself and others in matters of life and death. And it offers lessons to the current generation so that, at least in our time, this never happens again."--BOOK JACKET.

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