An examination of how important issues are kept out of mainstream public awareness profiles the "Soft Machine" mechanism by which politicians are limiting the widespread publication of undesirable facts, in a volume that covers such topics as the 2000 election, Bush's military record, and the number of Iraq war casualties. By the author of The Librarian.
Larry Beinhart lives in Woodstock, New York. He is the Edgar award-winning author of No One Rides for Free, You Get What you Pay For, Foreign Exchange, American hero and The Librarian. He was the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University. American Hero was filmed as Wag the Dog, starring Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman. His op-eds appear regularly in Newsday, Baltimore Sun, COmmon Dreams, Miami Herald and elsewhere.