A New York Times columnist reveals the spin campaign of the Bush administration that the author contends enabled the support of a war against a non-September 11 enemy, furthered conservative agendas, and dangerously consolidated presidential power, in an account that also reveals how the mainstream news media was prevented from exposing propaganda tactics. Simultaneous.

The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina

Rich, Frank

History

Penguin Audio

Demonstrating the candor and conviction that have made him one of our most trusted and incisive public voices, The New York Times columnist Frank Rich brilliantly and meticulously illuminates the Bush administration's disturbing love affair with "truthiness." Rich's step-by-step chronicle shows how, in the wake of 9/11, a propaganda president and his advisors misled a nation into war in Iraq and how the bungled aftermath, a Washington leak, and a devastating hurricane at long last revealed the lies in a story that had been so effectively sold to the nation as God-given patriotic fact.

The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America

Americas

Penguin Publishing Group

Avenging Angel by Frank Rich released on Jan 09, 2007 is available now for purchase.

Avenging Angel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Gold Eagle

It is 2031, and beyond the lawless inner city lie the badlands where chemical and biological cesspools have driven nature to delirium and disorder. Massive superhighways crisscross the ruined countryside, promising a one-way ticket to anybody's worst nightmare. Denver is a police state—and a revolution waiting to happen. Jake Strait's job runs more to knocking off killers, not toppling cities. But things get hot enough in his particular corner of hell that hurtling across a toxic wasteland against an impregnable fortress looks good.

The Devil Knocks (Jake Strait)

Contemporary

The damned, the dirty and the depraved call theconfines of inner-city hell home. It's a thrivingnucleus of spiritual activity: neon temples withvideo preachers, street-corner messiahs and coin-fed confession machines, ghetto prophets, whiskeyevangelists and vendors selling salvation in a box.Jake Strait has always placed his faith in the devil.But when a gorgeous blond angel hires him toinfiltrate a religious sect and locate her twin sister,he decides to give a new and improved god a try.Hired to turn the sect's team of bumbling soldiersinto a hit squad, he plans to lead the attack againstthe city's criminal subculture.BUT WHEN THE ROBES OF SPIRITUAL RIGHTEOUSNESSFALL AWAY TO REVEAL A WILD-EYED PROPHET ON THEMAKE, JAKE's GOT TO PAWN HIS TICKET TO PARADISEAND GET HIS CONSCIENCE OUT OF HOCK.

Day of Judgment (Jake Strait Series)

On the Hill, the decadent rich thrive in exclusivity,protected from inner-city hell by iron gates and thesecured suburbs. But in the ruthless, manic worldof cheap pleasures and easy death, professionalbogeyman Jake Strait has stayed alive the hard way,and like everything else, he's available for a price.He's been hired by one of the rich and powerful tofind an elusive serial killer called Cain, handy with anail gun and a collector of body parts of Hill residents.The playground of the rich is full of designer drugs,revenge and murder—a nice place to visit, exceptJake Strait has been set up from the start.

Twist of Cain (Jake Strait)

There is a superstition that if an emptied theater is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and musicians have gone home. Frank Rich's eloquent and moving boyhood memoir reveals how theater itself became a ghost light and a beacon of security for a child finding his way in a tumultuous world. Rich grew up in the small-townish Washington, D.C., of the 1950s and early '60s, a place where conformity seemed the key to happiness for a young boy who always felt different. When Rich was seven years old, his parents separated--at a time when divorce was still tantamount to scandal--and thereafter he and his younger sister were labeled "children from a broken home." Bouncing from school to school and increasingly lonely, Rich became terrified of the dark and the uncertainty of his future. But there was one thing in his life that made him sublimely happy: the Broadway theater. Rich's parents were avid theatergoers, and in happier times they would listen to the brand-new recordings of South Pacific, Damn Yankees, and The Pajama Game over and over in their living room. When his mother's remarriage brought about turbulent changes, Rich took refuge in these same records, re-creating the shows in his imagination, scene by scene. He started collecting Playbills, studied fanatically the theater listings in The New York Times and Variety, and cut out ads to create his own miniature marquees. He never imagined that one day he would be the Times's chief theater critic. Eventually Rich found a second home at Wash-ington's National Theatre, where as a teenager he was a ticket-taker and was introduced not only to the backstage magic he had dreamed of for so long but to a real-life cast of charismatic and eccentric players who would become his mentors and friends. With humor and eloquence, Rich tells the triumphant story of how the aspirations of a stagestruck young boy became a lifeline, propelling him toward the itinerant family of theater, whose romantic denizens welcomed him into the colorful fringes of Broadway during its last glamorous era. Every once in a while, a grand spectacle comes along that introduces its audiences to characters and scenes that will resound in their memories long after the curtain has gone down. Ghost Light, Frank Rich's beautifully crafted childhood memoir, is just such an event.

Ghost Light: A Memoir

Humor & Entertainment

Random House Publishing Group

Theatre Art Of Boris Aronson

Random House Value Publishing

Random House]

In his nearly fourteen years as chief drama critic of The New York Times, Frank Rich was both admired as a passionate advocate for the best in New York theater and reviled as "the Butcher of Broadway" for his presumed destructive power over the commercial fate of Broadway shows. Hot Seat is Rich's definitive chronicle of his long run--an encyclopedic anthology of more than three hundred of his best reviews and essays, interspersed with further thoughts, entirely new to this volume, about his adventures on the aisle at the tumultuous time when Broadway was decimated by AIDS and colonized by the British musical. Rich's opening-night accounts of an era's biggest hits (from The Phantom of the Opera to Six Degrees of Separation) and most notorious bombs (from Moose Murders to Carrie) are here, as are his year-by-year reflections on major careers both established (Stephen Sondheim, Peter Brook, Jessica Tandy) and new (August Wilson, Kevin Kline, Caryl Churchill). Here as well are Rich's final words on his sparring matches with Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Hare, among others, and his retrospective lists of which plays and performances he admired most and least--as well as lists of the productions he feels he over--and underrated the first time around. From the tragic opening night of David Merrick's 42nd Street to the unprecedented triumph of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Hot Seat captures what was in every way a dramatic chapter in cultural history, as told and lived by a journalist with the best seat and sharpest eye in the house.

Hot Seat: Theater Criticism for The New York Times, 1980-1993

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The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina

The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America

Avenging Angel

The Devil Knocks (Jake Strait)

Day of Judgment (Jake Strait Series)

Twist of Cain (Jake Strait)

Ghost Light: A Memoir

Theatre Art Of Boris Aronson

Ghost Light: A Memoir

Hot Seat: Theater Criticism for The New York Times, 1980-1993