{"product_id":"this-is-not-propaganda-peter-pomerantsev-9781541762121","title":"This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality","description":"\u003cb\u003eLearn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this \"insightful\" account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy -- but our very notion of what those words even mean. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age--from Kiev to Manilla--where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, \"behavioral change\" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his Ukranian dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia -- but the answers he finds there are not what he expected. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending reportage, family history, and intellectual adventure, \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not Propaganda\u003c\/i\u003e explores how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves when reality seems to be coming apart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Pomerantsev\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1541762126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541762121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d","brand":"Peter Pomerantsev","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44055339073791,"sku":"9781541762121","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a945f72-dd25-4c93-964f-11309b5d41ab.jpg?v=1685035187","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-is-not-propaganda-peter-pomerantsev-9781541762121","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}