{"product_id":"on-lying-and-politics-a-library-of-america-special-publication-paperback","title":"On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHannah Arendt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Bromwich\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMore urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"No one,\" Hannah Arendt observed, \"has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue.\" But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFifty years ago, the century's greatest political theorist turned her focus to these essential questions in two seminal essays, brought together here for the first time. Her conclusions, delivered in searching prose that crackles with insight and intelligence, remain powerfully relevant, perhaps more so today than when they were written. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Truth and Politics,\" Arendt explores the affinity between lying and politics, and reminds us that the survival of factual truth depends on the testimony of credible witnesses and on an informed citizenry. She shows how our shared sense of reality--the texture of facts in which we wrap our daily lives--can be torn apart by organized lying, replaced with a fantasy world of airbrushed evidence and doctored documents. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Lying in Politics,\" written in response to the release of the Pentagon Papers, Arendt applies these insights to an analysis of American policy in Southeast Asia, arguing that the real goal of the Vietnam War--and of the official lies used to justify it by successive administrations--was nothing other than the burnishing of America's image. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his introduction, David Bromwich (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us)\u003c\/i\u003e engages with Arendt's essays in the context of her other writings and underscores their clarion call to take seriously the ever-present threat to democracy posed by lying.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHANNAH ARENDT\u003c\/b\u003e (1906-1975) was one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, and the posthumously published \u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e. Her commentaries on modern American and European politics and on the history of political thought were collected in \u003ci\u003eEssays in Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThinking Without a Banister\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eResponsibility and Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID BROMWICH\u003c\/b\u003e is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Intellectual Career of Edmund Burke\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us\u003c\/i\u003e. His articles on contemporary politics have appeared in \u003ci\u003eDissent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 158\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.4 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52688926441805,"sku":"9781598537314","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/QURCVytuUGo3eCs3b0k2MDdmcmZmQT09.webp?v=1761949257","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/on-lying-and-politics-a-library-of-america-special-publication-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}