Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism That Changed the World

Цена 15.74 - 45.39 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781560257868

Брэнд Basic Books

Страниц 656

Год выпуска 2005

Prison scandals, terrorism, corporate fraud, election rigging?most likely you have heard something of the sort in the last ten minutes. But what is truth and what is part of the great "washout" of biased reporting? A celebration of lucid investigative reporting, selected by titan of the craft John Pilger, could come at no better moment. Pilger"s book travels through contemporary history, from war correspondent Martha Gelhorn"s wrenching 1945 account of the liberation of Dachau to Edward R. Murrow"s groundbreaking excavation of McCarthyism to recent coverage of the war in Iraq. This homage to brave, often unsettling coverage features a range of great writing, from Seymour Hersh"s Vietnam-era muckraking to Eric Schlosser"s exposA© of the fast-food industry to preeminent theorist Edward Said"s writing on Islam and terrorism. Unrepentant in its mission to expose the truth behind the messages that politicians, warmongers, and corporate-run media inculcate, Tell Me No Lies is...