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You said what?: lies and propaganda throughout history

✍ Scribed by Bill Fawcett


Publisher
HarperCollins e-Books
Year
2014
Tongue
en-US
Weight
179 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
006175790X

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


A fascinating, fun, and fact-filled compendium of the greatest lies, deceptions, propaganda, and frauds ever perpetrated

Throughout history--from the dawn of man to the War on Terror--governments, corporations, historians, and high-level braggarts of every stripe have freely engaged in the time-honored pastime of lying for fun and profit. You Said What? is an endlessly entertaining and outrageously edifying look at some of the biggest whoppers of all time, chock-full of deceptions, trickery, and incredible untruths both infamous and obscure.

  • The press conspiracies that protected FDR's legs, as well as JFK's sex addiction and failing health

  • Lies that caused the Knights Templar fall, the Salem witch trials, and the Black Death

  • Big lies that changed history: Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin, the Cuban missile crisis, the "Polish" raid that kicked off WWII . . . and remember...


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