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Fog Facts

Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin



Larry Beinhart
October 2005     ISBN: 1560257679

Everyone in the world knows what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky, or what happened to Brad and Jennifer or Katie and Tom. These factoids mysteriously capture the world's attention. But there's a flip side to this: fog facts.

Fog facts are known but not known, the sort of things that journalists and political junkies know, but somehow the world does not. The "Downing Street memo" is a fine example. This document revealed that the head of British intelligence had been informed by his Washington counterparts that the White House was cooking the books on the information it was using to justify a war in Iraq. Yet this was not big news in America. Why? In Fog Facts, Larry Beinhart tackles this question and shows how soft-core, PR-style political lying has been raised to an art form.

About the Authors

Larry Beinhart is an award-winning novelist who lives in Woodstock, New York. He is the author of Wag the Dog and last year's acclaimed novel The Librarian. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. He was the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University. He is a regularly featured blogger on The Huffington Post. He currently lives in Woodstock, New York with his wife and two children.

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