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As new condition blue boards with red spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; Acknowledgments; Notes and Index. Also includes four color pages, two of which are double sided, of promotional advertising book reviews and quotes of praise for the volume attached to the business card of Project Veritas Director of Special Operations Senior Communications Strategist. Signed by the author, James O'Keefe, with thin black pen on the blank first free front endpaper. "And Jeffrey Wigand, who's out on a limb, does he go on television and tell the truth? Yes. Is it newsworthy? Yes. Are we going to air it? Of course not. Why? Because he's not telling the truth? No. Because he is telling the truth. That's why we're not going to air it. And the more truth he tells, the worse it gets." -- Al Pacino as 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman in The Insider, 1999. "The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislative power, the executive, and the judiciary. And one would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harvard commencement address, 1978. "The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda is that the Russian people knew they were being lied to. To expose the lies our media tell us today, James O'Keefe created Project Veritas, an independent news organization whose reporters go where traditional journalists dare not. Their investigative work -- equal parts James Bond, Mike Wallace, and Saul Alinsky -- has had a consistent and powerful impact on its targets. In American Pravda, the reader is invited to go undercover with these intrepid journalists as they infiltrate political campaigns, unmask dishonest officials, and expose voter fraud. A rollicking adventure story on one level, the book also serves as a treatise on modern media, arguing that establshment journalists have a vested interest in keeping the powerful comfortalbe and the people misinformed. O'Keefe is often characterized as a right-winger, but he is the enemy of all statist media narratives, regardless of ideology. He actually sees himself as following in the footsteps of muckraking Progressives like Upton Sinclair and Nellie Bly -- a tradition also exemplified by leftwing gadfly Michael Moore -- for whom storytelling is just as important as factual accuracy. American Pravda not only contests the false narratives frequently put forth by corporate media, it documents the consequences of telling the truth in a world that does not necessarily want to hear it. O'Keefe's enemies attack with lawsuits, smear campaigns, political prosecutions, and false charges in an effort to shut down Project Veritas. For O'Keefe, every one of these attacks is a sign of success. American Pravda puts the myths and misconceptions surrounding O'Keefe's activities to rest and will make you rethink every word you hear and read in the so-called mainstream press." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "Rarely does a piece of investigative reporting get such a big and quick response, and rarely is the undercover reporter such a fascinating character." -- Chris Wallace. "A latter-day Mike Wallace." -- Dennis Miller. "Upstart James O'Keefe has dealt a major blow to the establishment." -- George Stephanopoulos. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: James O'Keefe is an award-winning journalist and writer. He is the founder and president of Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action, nonprofit organizations dedicated to investigating corruption, dishonesty, waste, and fraud in public and private institutions. O'Keefe's investigations have led directly to new legislation, federal and state investigations, congressional inquiries, resignations, firings, restraining orders, arrests, and the defunding of taxpaer-funded groups. Seller Inventory # 006945
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Title: American Pravda: My Fight For Truth in the ...
Publisher: All Points Books / St. Martin's Press, New York
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
