The Penguin Book of Lies

By Philip Kerr

Book Overview

In this anthology of "terminological inexactitudes", "economies with the truth" and whopping untruths, Philip Kerr has come up with examples of the art of lying from the era of the Bible and Plato... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670825603
• ISBN13: 9780670825608
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 543 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Mendacity Encyclopaedia

An interesting book this, with a wonderful dustjacked showing the NKVD-era excision of a number of Trotsyites from an old photograph of Lenin. In a series of essays and extracts we hear falsehoods from supposed liars are Eisenhower (publicly, on Sputnik), Kennedy (during Cuban Missile Crisis, but only in private conversations with Soviet ambassadors), Johnson (on the Gulf of Tonkin incident) and Nixon (enough said). There are plenty of British, European and Asian lies too. Sad thing is, that despite the end of the Cold War, whose lies feature so heavily in this tome, any second edition covering 1990 onwards will have plenty more.