Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation & What We Can Do About It

From 2013 through 2016, Richard Stengel served as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. He was the Editor of TIME for seven years, from 2006 to 2013, before joining the State Department. From 1992 to 1994, he worked on Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, with the South African statesman. On his experience working with Mandela, Stengel wrote Mandela's Way, a New York Times best-seller.

Stengel travels to Russia and Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and presents personalities ranging from Putin to Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Mohamed bin Salman in Information Wars to explain how deception is affecting our global culture. He shows how ISIS used social media to frighten the globe, as well as how the Russians conducted a disinformation campaign around the takeover of Crimea - a strategy that would become a blueprint for future initiatives. Information Wars, a timely book with a fresh foreword from the author, pushes us to confront the ever-increasing threat to democracy.

Some reviews about this book: “[A] refreshingly frank account…revealing.” - Kirkus Reviews; “This sobering book is indeed needed to help individuals better understand how information can be massaged to produce any sort of message desired.” - Library Journal

Author: Richard Stengel

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