Fake News Nation: The Long History of Lies and Misinterpretations in America

Fake News Nation: The Long History of Lies and Misinterpretations in America

By James W Cortada and William Aspray

Fake News Nation tells the story of how false information has flooded American public life for over 230 years. The authors show how lies, misrepresentations, and rumors have drawn America into wars, covered up assassinations, influenced national elections, and impacted content...

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publish Date: 10/01/2019
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781538131107
ISBN-10: 1538131102
Language: English

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Fake News Nation tells the story of how false information has flooded American public life for over 230 years. The authors show how lies, misrepresentations, and rumors have drawn America into wars, covered up assassinations, influenced national elections, and impacted contentious policy issues such as the effects of smoking and climate change.

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James W. Cortada is a Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota. He holds a Ph.D. in modern history and worked at IBM in various sales, consulting, management, and executive positions for 38 years, including in IBM's management research institute, The IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV). Th

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James W. Cortada, Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Author of dozens of books on computers, information, and technology, has written for Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, MIT Press, John Wiley & Sons, Financial Times, and McGraw-Hill.

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