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The Assault on Truth - Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism (Paperback)
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The Assault on Truth - Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism (Paperback)
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* THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER * 'A clinical and merciless
account of Johnson's mendacity... gripping' Guardian When Peter
Oborne wrote The Rise of Political Lying, looking at the growth of
political falsehood under John Major and Tony Blair, he believed
things had got as bad as they could be. With the arrival of Boris
Johnson at No 10 in 2019 began a new and unprecedented epidemic of
deceit. In The Assault on Truth, a short and powerful polemic,
Oborne shows how Boris Johnson lied again and again in order to
secure victory so he could force through Brexit in the face of
parliamentary opposition. Johnson and his ministers then lied
repeatedly to win the general election in December 2019. The
government's woeful response to the coronavirus pandemic has
generated another wave of falsehoods, misrepresentations and
fabrications. Oborne has brought the book fully up to date, to the
end of Johnson's time in No 10. The scale and shamelessness of the
lying of the Johnson administration far exceeded the lying about
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and other issues under Tony
Blair. This book argues that the ruthless use of political deceit
under the Johnson government was part of a wider attack on
civilised values and traditional institutions across the Western
world, especially by Donald Trump in the USA. The Johnson and Trump
methodology of deceit is about securing power for its own ends -
even when they get exposed for lying, they shrug it off as a matter
of no consequence. Oborne assesses whether their time in power has
tainted their successors. It matters because all Western
institutions are built around the idea of integrity and
accountability. This means that an assault on truth is an assault
on the rule of law, state institutions and the fundamental idea of
fairness, and even democracy itself.
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Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Peter Oborne
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Dimensions: |
198 x 130 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
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Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-398-52338-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
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LSN: |
1-398-52338-0 |
Barcode: |
9781398523388 |
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