Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse
Author: Eric Alterman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 If there's one thing we know about Donald Trump, it's that he lies. But he's by no means the first president to do so. In Lying in State, Eric Alterman asks how we ended up with such a pathologically dishonest commander in chief, showing that, from early on, the United States has persistently expanded its power and hegemony on the basis of presidential lies. He also reveals the cumulative effect of...
Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse