Anita H. (AnitaJRT) reviewed The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina on + 96 more book reviews
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What an eye opener. It hits home as to why we're not the great super power we believe ourselves to be.
Katie B. (wirenth) reviewed The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina on + 25 more book reviews
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an interesting book that follows the bush administration's selling of the war in iraq from right after 9/11 through to 2006. the whole thing depresses me anyway, but it's even more depressing when it's laid out there for you in black and white. at the end of the book is a timeline which chronicles both what the bush administration knew and what the american public was being told. troubling. very troubling. and downright infuriating.
Lori B. reviewed The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina on
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I was stunned by reading this book and it is an absolute must read!
Margaret C. (oneta) reviewed The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina on + 36 more book reviews
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"The attacks of 9/11 marked a new morning in America - a wake-up call, you'd think, for a country that had become habituated to peace and prosperity and had had the luxury of devoting several years to obsessing about a president's seamy sex life.
But whatever else 9/11 was, we can see now that it was the beginning of a new national narrative - a compelling and often persuaasive story that was told by the president of the United States and his administration to mobilize a shell-shocked country desperate to be led. The story was often at variance with the facts that were known at the time, let alone with the facts that have come to light since. But it did have a slick patina of plausibility. The story was effective enough to take America into a war against a nation that did not attack it on 9/11. When future Americans look back on this period and ask, 'How did this happen?' the bultural context of the early twenty-first century may explain at least as much as the characters and offical actions that played out against that backdrop."
But whatever else 9/11 was, we can see now that it was the beginning of a new national narrative - a compelling and often persuaasive story that was told by the president of the United States and his administration to mobilize a shell-shocked country desperate to be led. The story was often at variance with the facts that were known at the time, let alone with the facts that have come to light since. But it did have a slick patina of plausibility. The story was effective enough to take America into a war against a nation that did not attack it on 9/11. When future Americans look back on this period and ask, 'How did this happen?' the bultural context of the early twenty-first century may explain at least as much as the characters and offical actions that played out against that backdrop."
John O. (buzzby) -
I read his column whenever it is in the paper, but to tell the truth, all that dripping sarcasm in book form is a bit much for me.
