reviews-post-truth

This well-researched and cogently written expose should be required reading for all Americans. Mr. Keyes utilizes both anecdotal evidence, and to the extent it is available, statistics and other evidence, to demonstrate that “truth” is a rapidly vanishing value in our current society. He then explains that the ramifications of this value decline are significant; …

“This well-researched and cogently written expose should be required reading for all Americans.” Evan Haglund “elhaglund” (Phoenix, AZ)

Casual duplicity picks at the threads of our social fabric,” Keyes warns, and not just because it creates a greater tendency toward suspicion and mistrust. The consequences of letting people get away with lying can be severe: when somebody gets a job based on a bogus résumé, for example, he or she deprives those applicants …

“Mr. Keyes’ book is both pertinent and well-timed.” When I was four or perhaps five years old I was out on the porch playing with a child’s set of plastic carpenter’s tools with a neighbor child, Curt Tacey.  For reasons lost to history, I took the hammer and clunked Curt on the head with it.  …

“Keyes is an author of keen perception and wide-ranging observation. He has pulled together an enormous body of evidence, all pointing to the pervasive rise of dishonesty in American life.” Have we now reached a stage of social evolution that is “beyond honesty?” That fascinating question is raised by author Ralph Keyes in his new …

“This exceptional book asks and answers a diverse series of questions. Keyes’s book deserves a wide readership.” Among the most fascinating things in Ralph Keyes’s The Post-Truth Era: Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life (St. Martin’s, $24.95) is his look at the ways in which morality and leadership converge. Keyes relates the results of studies …