American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News

By: O'Keefe, James

Book Overview

Sheriff West and his deputies in their F-150s escorted me to a godforsaken spot sixty miles southeast of El Paso. In his Texas bowl hat and deeply lived-in jeans, the man seemed to have stepped right out of Central Casting. Never less than poker-faced, the good sheriff said no more than he had to, and when he did speak it was to the point. "You're an idiot," West said to me casually in his monotone Tex-Mex drawl as I scanned the border country through a pair of binoculars. "Why's that?" I answered, not knowing which of a dozen likely responses I might provoke. "For doing this," he said. The "this" in question was crossing the Rio Grande dressed as Osama bin Laden. "The U.S. government is going to come after you big time." Soon enough, customs agents in airports across North America would prove that the sheriff understood the ways of government much better than I did. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250154642
• ISBN13: 9781250154644
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"