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Would They Lie to You? How to Spin Friends and Manipulate People

Would They Lie to You? How to Spin Friends and Manipulate People

by RobertHutton (Author)

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    Illustrated 2014

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Synopsis

How do you apologise when you're not sorry? Where can you make a fortune out of pretending to know the future? What's the best way to steal credit and avoid blame? These are the vital life skills that people need if they're going to make their way in the world. And they all involve one ingredient: flannel, the art of not saying what you mean. It's not exactly lying, but it's definitely not telling the truth. In Romps, Tots and Boffins, Robert Hutton brilliantly 'laid bare' the true meanings of the words we read in the papers. Following popular demand, he now turns his razor-sharp eye to the best, worst and most outlandish examples of waffle, fudging, obscurity, blame-shifting and point-scoring. In areas from politics to sports, academia, religion and self-help, it seems that glory, money and power flow far more freely to those who sidestep bald, ugly realities. You can steer a truck through the gap between a lie and the simple truth. This book tells you how to load the truck.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 144
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
Published: 04 Sep 2014
ISBN 10: 1783960086
ISBN 13: 9781783960088
Book Overview: * The follow-up to the hugely successful Romps, Tots and Boffins: The Strange Language of News, which generated widespread media coverage, was featured in four 'books of the year' roundups, and was nominated for a Paddy Power Political Book Award.; * This book will build on this success and will be backed with a wide media campaign, with support from major journalist contacts.; * Extracts from the book have already featured on Buzzfeed.; * Robert Hutton is a very funny writer who has been called 'the Dr Johnson of journalese' for his ability to dissect the words and phrases that we hear every day.

Media Reviews
Brutally funny -- Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail; The irresistible vade mecum of every prangmeister and cock-up artist. -- Boris Johnson, Mayor of London; 'a stocking-fillerish contribution for the political nerd in your life'--Helen Lewis, Guardian's best political books of the year; 'Confused? Of course you are. You're supposed to be. But help is at hand: Hutton's handbook cracks the everyday code of the euphemisms, evasions, avoidances and ambiguities that say less than they mean and mean the reverse of what they say' -- Iain Finlayson, The Times; 'Superb. Rare to find so much wit and insight in just 146 pages' -- Andrew Sparrow, political blogger at The Guardian; 'Darkly funny and expertly observed' -- Michael Deacon, parliamentary sketchwriter at The Telegraph; 'Hutton's 'translations' from what people say to what they mean are ten-chuckles-a-minute' --Matthew Parris, from the foreword
Author Bio
Robert Hutton is the author of Romps, Tots and Boffins (E&T, 2013). He has been UK political correspondent for Bloomberg since 2004; previously, he worked at the Mirror and Financial Times. Having read Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at Edinburgh University, he is believed to be the only member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery to have built a rugby-playing robot. He lives in south-east London with his wife and sons.