Book Review: Tangled Webs: How False Statements Are Undermining America by James Stewart
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Tangled Webs:
How False Statements Are Undermining America:
From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff
By James B. Stewart
Penguin Press; 496 pp; $29.95
Eight years ago, before he became a senator and full-time serious person, Al Franken published a book called . This would actually make a better title for James B. Stewart's engrossing new book than the drab, finger-wagging one it's been assigned. For what Stewart has put together is less a fretful rumination on this country's moral failings than it is an extraordinary forensic analysis of the high-stakes American liar.