Thank you, Atria Books, for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

Mr. Book just finished Beyond The Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Down Our Democracy, by Bill Adair.

The author is the creator of PolitiFact, a fact checking website, and cofounder of the International Fact-Checking Network.

PolitiFact tracks the number of lies for each individual and the data proves that Republicans lie much more than Democrats. But, when asked about that on C-SPAN, the author had to lie and claim they didn’t keep track since he knew that Republicans would just cry about that and tell people not to trust them.

Among the highlights of this book was a look at the work of Nina Jankowicz, who headed a DHS project to expose disinformation and the Republicans’ reaction to that, as well the Lying Hall of Fame.

The chapter on ideas on how to deal with the problem presented a bunch of ideas that could work. That was also a big strength of the book.

I give this book a B+. Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, a B+ equates to 4 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

This review has been posted at NetGalley, Goodreads and my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews.

Mr. Book originally finished reading this on July 19, 2024.