Brooks Jackson runs FactCheck.org and was previously an
investigative reporter for the Associated Press, The Wall Street
Journal, and CNN. He is the author of Honest Graft- Big Money and
the American Political Process and Broken Promise- Why the Federal
Election Commission Failed. Jackson lives in Washington, D.C.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the director of the Annenberg Public
Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written
more than a dozen books, including Dirty Politics- Deception,
Distraction, and Democracy and Everything You Think You Know About
Politics . . . and Why You're Wrong. Jamieson lives in
Philadelphia.
“Read this book and you will not go unarmed into the political wars
ahead of us. Jackson and Jamieson equip us to be our own truth
squad, and that just might be the salvation of
democracy.” —Bill Moyers
“The definitive B.S. detector—an absolutely invaluable
guidebook.”—Mark Shields, syndicated columnist and political
analyst, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
“unSpun is an essential guide to cutting through the political
fog. Just in time for the 2008 campaign, Brooks Jackson and
Kathleen Hall Jamieson have written a citizen’s guide to avoiding
the malarkey of partisan politics.”—Mara Liasson, NPR national
political correspondent
“The Internet may be a wildly effective means of communication and
an invaluable source of knowledge, but it has also become a new
virtual haven for scammers–financial, political, even personal.
Better than anything written before, unSpun shows us how to
recognize these scams and protect ourselves from them.”—Craig
Newmark, founder and customer service representative, Craigslist
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