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368 pages, Hardcover
First published October 8, 2019
An ARC copy from ALA (thanks Anne!) Information Wars: How We Lost the Battle against Disinformation and What We Can do about it by Richard Stengel is a fascinating and scary read. Anyone interested in how information is used, mis-used or ignored should read this book. Stengel provides important details on how disinformation played a key role in the election of President Trump long before Trump was even a candidate. There is so much in this book that it is difficult to summarize in any cogent way so instead I urge those who fancy themselves government policy nerds to READ IT, THINK ABOUT IT, and then try to find ways that all of us as information consumers can improve how we communicate and how we absorb media (and Stengel concludes with some suggestions on how to improve the media landscape for readers). This is an important book.