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Title: Social Superpower, The: The Big Truth About Little Lies
Author: WYATT KATHLEEN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/07/2022
Imprint: BITEBACK PUBLISHING
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active
In an era of fake news, alternative truths and leaked secrets making constant headlines, we are telling stories about ourselves all the time, and we are telling them in so many different ways. From vlogs and blogs to tweets and posts, from photos and gifs to live streams. From instant updates that disappear to rash words that last for ever and data trails that chart every step we take.
While people around her shake their heads and mutter bad things about the new levels of day-to-day deceit, Kathleen Wyatt is busy marvelling at how society manages it. How do we do this extraordinary thing – often under the most ordinary of circumstances? How do we convince each other to suspend disbelief? And why do we do it?
In this brilliant, wide-ranging study of lies and lying, Wyatt introduces us to a cast of professionals and professional liars – from scientists to investigators, from double agents to journalists, from toddler specialists to a fallen titan of industry – all to help her prove a remarkable thesis: lies hold us together as much as they push us apart and may be vital in a healthy society.
Review: \”This might sound like a back-handed compliment, but it is not meant to be: I cannot think of a better, more elegant or more articulate guide to mistruth than Kathleen.\” – Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
Author Biography: Kathleen Wyatt grew up in England, Nigeria and Luxembourg, studied at Cambridge and Oxford and splits her time between London and Hampshire. She loves words and puts them in speeches for others and books for herself. She worked at The Times for sixteen years, starting as a ‘workie’, graduating to the arts section, then news, then becoming travel editor. She has lived twice, speaks six languages and thinks there is always more than one way to see things. If she’s telling the truth, that is.
ISBN: 9781785907050
Dimension: 216mm X 138mm