Truth

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Truth. This is a book about TRUTH ? and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we?ve managed to avoid it.

We live in a ?post-truth? age, we?re told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis (or who doesn?t even know what?s true, and doesn?t care). The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don?t trust experts any more.

But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? As the editor of the UK?s leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other ? and ourselves ? and asks an important question: how can hu