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    Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It

    By Richard Stengel

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  • Informed by Richard Stengel's time working in the State Department, Information Wars is first and only insider account of how the global rise of disinformation--namely the disinformation of Russia and Donald Trump--impacted the 2016 election.

  • Richard Stengel is a prominent journalist who served the editor of Time for seven years, from 2006-2013. In 2013, Stengel left Time to serve as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs under Barrack Obama, a job he held from from 2013-2016.

  • This book is incredibly urgent and timely, as the relationship between Russia and President Trump continues to be under investigation, and as America persists in its attempt to get to the bottom of exactly what happened with Russia during the 2016 election. Stengel illuminates exactly how we got here, an analysis that will be especially welcome and buzz worthy as we watch the campaigns for the 2020 US presidential election unfold.

  • The timing of publication could not be better--Grove will publish Information Wars in October 2019, well before the 2020 election, but as the presidential campaigns are gaining steam.

  • Information Wars is guaranteed to attract major media attention and, due to its timeliness, will certainly be a hot topic of discussion on radio and television in addition to in print.

  • Information Wars is a shocking and informative read, and Stengel is an excellent, clear, and astute writer who has written several other books. In the 90s, he collaborated with Nelson Mandela on the South African leader's autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. Stengel later wrote Mandela's Way, a New York Times best-seller, on his experience working with Mandela. He is the author of several other books, including January Sun, a book about life in a small South African town as well as You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery. He lives in New York.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtlantic Monthly Press
    Release dateOct 8, 2019
    ISBN9780802147998

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    • 4/5
      Author, Richard Stengel, former editor of Time magazine was Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs from 2013 to 2016 during the Obama administration while John Kerry was Secretary of State.
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      3.5 If you are one, like myself, who wonders why our government is slow to act, seemingly taking forever to get anything done, this is the book to read. Chronicling his time in the state department, he shows the many divisions, turf wars, constant meetings where little is accomplished, he shows how hard it is to put any new programs into place. He also shows how disinformation is put in place, ads targeted to specific audiences, who spread these false beliefs. He talks of the dark web and its influence and how difficult it is to stop it's influence. One site shut down another quickly opened, taking its place. Exactly how the Trump campaign used social media to great effect, and how Russia spread it's propaganda.He offers solutions at books end, but explains how difficult it is to get people to not believe everything they read and see, especially when the message aligns with their own beliefs. "Disinformation will always be with us. And that is because the problem is not with the facts, or the lack of them, or misleading stories filled with conjecture, the problem is us. There are all kinds of fancy cognitive biases and psychological states, but the plain truth is people are going to believe what they want to believe."The responsible thing to do is to check sources, where are these coming from, whether we agree or not, whether they fit our opinions. This book was informative, but also scary in a way. This is a world now where anything in social media can be taken as truth. ARC from Edelweiss