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Because of the lack of sustaining culture within American society, von Frantzius maintains that Americans were led into a state of dependence on the British. Von Frantzius stresses the American dependence on British culture during World War I. One of the most prevailing dependencies discussed is American reliance on English media.
Truth or verity is the property of being in accord with fact or reality. [1] In everyday language, it is typically ascribed to things that aim to represent reality or otherwise correspond to it, such as beliefs, propositions, and declarative sentences. [2] Truth is usually held to be the opposite of false statement.
Post-truth politics, also described as post-factual politics [1] or post-reality politics, [2] amidst varying academic and dictionary definitions of the term, refer to a recent historical period where political culture is marked by public anxiety about what claims can be publicly accepted facts. [3] [4] [5]
The book is an analysis of American race relations with the focal point a 1963 meeting between Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and a group of notable African-Americans including James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne and Lorraine Hansberry and Freedom Rider Jerome Smith.
The American space program in the 1960s never had a wide base of public support and did not unify America. Belief that the Apollo program was worth the time and money invested peaked at 51% for a few months after the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing , and otherwise had fluctuated between 35–45% support.
Truth Decay is a non-fiction book by Jennifer Kavanagh and Michael D. Rich.Published by the RAND Corporation on January 16, 2018, [1] the book examines historical trends such as "yellow journalism" and "new journalism" to demonstrate that "truth decay" is not a new phenomenon in American society. [2]
Post-truth is about a historical problem regarding truth in everyday life, especially politics. But truth has long been one of the major preoccupations of philosophy.Truth is also one of the most complicated concepts in the history of philosophy, and much of the research and public debate about post-truth assumes a particular theory of truth, what philosophers call a correspondence theory of ...
The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President is a controversial political biography about Hillary Clinton, then a Democratic senator from New York, written by Edward Klein, the former editor of The New York Times Magazine.