Mark Kurlansky: Big Lies | Buch

Cover: 9780884489122 | Big Lies | From Socrates to Social Media | Mark Kurlansky (u. a.)

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Beschreibung

Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization. They corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside down, and reinvent history. They prevent humanity from addressing critical challenges. They perpetuate injustices. They destabilize the world.

The modern age has provided ever-more-effective ways of spreading lies, but it has also given us the scientific method, which is the most effective tool for finding what is true. In the book's final chapter, Kurlansky reveals ways to deconstruct an allegation. A scientific theory has to be testable, and so does an allegation.

BIG LIES soars across history: alighting on the "noble lies" of Socrates and Plato; Nero blaming Christians for the burning of Rome; the great injustices of the Middle Ages; the big lies of Stalin and Hitler and their terrible consequences; the reckless lies of contemporary demagogues, which are amplified through social media; lies against women and Jews are two examples in the long history of "othering" the vulnerable for personal gain; up to the equal-opportunity spotlight in America.

"Belief is a choice," Kurlansky writes, "and honesty begins in each of us. A lack of caring what is true or false is the undoing of democracy. The alternative to truth is a corrupt state in which the loudest voices and most seductive lies confer power and wealth on grifters and oligarchs. We cannot achieve a healthy planet for all the world's people if we do not keep asking what is true."

Über den Autor

Mark Kurlansky worked as a commercial fisherman, longshoreman, paralegal, cook, pastry chef, and playwright, then traveled the world as a journalist and foreign correspondent for The International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Based in Paris and then Mexico, he reported on Europe, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Central America, Latin America, and the Caribbean from 1976 to 1991. His thirty-four books for adults and young readers include four New York Times bestsellers (Cod; Salt; 1968; and The Food of a Younger Land) and have been translated into thirty languages. He has received a James Beard Award for Food Writing, a Bon Appétit American Food and Entertaining Award for Food Writer of the Year, and the Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award for Food Book of the Year. A master storyteller, Kurlansky is equally adept at writing for children and adults. The New York Times called World Without Fish "a compelling narrative for young people."

Zusammenfassung

A YA nonfiction guide to the big lies told through history, and how to recognize them on social media today.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Entreaty

1. Masked Revelers in a Carnival of Lies

From Russia with Love, Part 1

2. The Enlightenment and the Unenlightened

From Russia with Love, Part 2

3. Denial: The Short Way around Science

From Russia with Love, Part 3

4. Favorite Lies About Women

From Russia with Love, Part 4

5. A Snowball in France: The Blame Game

From Russia with Love, Part 5

6. Soviet Mathematics: 2 + 2 = 5

7. The Truth about American Truth

8. Big Dictators and Big Lies

The Prince of Real Estate, Part 1

9. Photographic Lies

The Prince of Real Estate, Part 2

10. Saving Children: A Best-Loved Lie

The Prince of Real Estate, Part 3

11. The Golden Lasso of Truth

The Prince of Real Estate, Part 4

Sources

Index

Acknowledgments

Details

Empfohlen (bis):	17
Empfohlen (von):	14
Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Sachliteratur
Rubrik:	Kinder & Jugend
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780884489122
ISBN-10:	0884489124
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	884912
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Kurlansky, Mark Zelz, Eric
Hersteller:	Tilbury House Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 184 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Kurlansky (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.10.2022
Gewicht:	0,856 kg