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Telling the Truth
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Why Our Culture and Our Country Have Stopped Making Sense--and What We Can Do About It
By Lynne V. Cheney
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Telling the Truth
Dimensions: 0.66'' x 8.52'' x 5.54''
255 pages
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: January 1996
Paperback
ISBN: 0684825341
Hardcover
ISBN: 0684811014

In this detailed examination of American cultural and political institutions, journalism, and education, the author, former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, shows how a disdain for objective truth and principles has created a moral and intellectual crisis that  threatens the foundation of our legal, political, and social order.

Lynne V. Cheney is a senior fellow at AEI.

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