| Description |
ix, 339 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Subtitle from cover. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Inside America's doll house: a vast tapestry of lies -- What are we working for "at Eternity's Gate"? -- Walking with Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., a criminal for peace -- The disappearance of silence -- The message from Dallas: JFK and the unspeakable -- Why I don't speak of 9/11 anymore -- The sexual passion of Winston Smith -- Gina Haspel and Pinocchio from Rome -- Without poetry we are dead: with it we die living -- American values: lessons I learned from my family -- Will NPR now officially change its name to National Propaganda Radio? -- The art of doublespeak: Bellingcat and mind control -- Lost in the theatre of data, dada, and emotional manipulation -- Albert Camus and our haunted world -- Denying the obvious: leftists and crimestop -- A do-nothing anti-labor day: a modest proposal -- Looking through the screen at the world's suffering -- The lies of 9/11 miracle workers -- A genuine actor: Francesco Serpico -- The satanic nature of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Hovering in cyberspace -- Snow, death, and the bewildered herd -- Playing on the devil's chessboard: Allen Dulles and the CIA -- Love is lovelier the third time around, isn't it? -- Ghostly voices dancing in the rain -- The silent cries of hiding children: half a century after MLK's Riverside Church speech -- The cell phone and the virgin: a Montreal odyssey -- Slow suicide and the abandonment of the world -- When warriors become saints -- Bob Dylan: a masked man in search of redemption? -- Sometimes a pair of pants can give you vertigo -- Kevin Love: making a hole in denial -- Hillary Clinton: the heartless queen -- Answering the mysterious call of an artist's spiritual vocation -- A conspiracy theorist confesses to his petty crimes -- Painting a true Christ -- The government that killed him honors MLK Jr. with a national holiday -- Between heaven and Earth on a spring morning -- Try learning how not to ride a bicycle so we can save the world -- Speeding into the void of cyberspace as designed -- The CIA then and now: old wine in new bottles -- The canaries that sang "things suck" -- The assassination of RFK: a lie too big to fail -- Happenings in the land of the free and the home of the brave -- When time stands still -- Epilogue: the messenger. |
| Summary |
"Seeking Truth in A Country of Lies is a collection of lyrical and critical essays offering keen insight into a very wide range of topics: from probing analyses related to work, the digital revolution, propaganda, the attacks of September 11, 2001, the CIA, government assassinations and wars, to spellbinding reflections on poetry, nature, time, and even silence. Following in the path of such earlier celebrated essayists as Thoreau and John Berger, Curtin’s critique is at once political, social, cultural, and deeply personal. Constructed over a broad swath of time, these essays address some of the most significant events in world history, shining shafts of brilliant light on abhorrent matters long unspeakable."-- Amazon. |
| Subject |
Conspiracy -- United States.
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Conspiracy theories -- United States.
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Truthfulness and falsehood.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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| ISBN |
9781949762266 (paperback) |
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1949762262 (paperback) |
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