A review by guinness74
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani

informative fast-paced

3.5

Reading, at times, like a journal article or thesis, I felt a little underwhelmed by the writing. It seemed entirely too academic. But, then, Kakutani spoke about the accepted norms of discourse being abused and turned inside out and I began to realize I had experienced these same notions, wondering if I was losing my ability to comprehend reality. The book is definitely biased, but only because it has to be. Trump’s destruction of political and social mores has made a balanced political conversation impossible. Reality, turned on its head, is like Alice’s adventures where nothing is as it seems and is disconcerting for anyone who still accepts the notion of actual truth.