"True Enough" is an eye-opener It's not every day that a book can make someone think so much about society and life. It is rare that a book can have so much power to make someone understand the differences between people and open the eyes of the public. Farhad Manjoo, author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, published in 2008, provides in-depth, in-depth information on how Americans' perspective changes with each individual. No matter if the facts and evidence are shown, there will still be people who believe something happened and others who don't. Farhad provides facts, experiments, and examples on how “technology and globalization have united the world, they are driving our minds apart” (Manjoo 1). Examples and information about the Swift Boat Veterans, the tragic 9/11 attack, the election of President Bush in 2004,......all the big problems in the United States and people have their own beliefs about time to believe to the facts or their personal opinion. Manjoo's questions in the book "How can so many people living in the same place see the world so differently?" (7). The book begins with the incidence of the Swift Boat Veterans with John Kerry and how a group of people managed to make Kerry look not like a hero during the Vietnam War but a traitor. Fahad Manjoo provides background information on John Kerry allowing the reader to become familiar with who he was. Manjoo in this sense takes his audience into consideration by providing them with enough information before delving into Kerry. Manjoo says the media plays an important role in distorting reality. He states, “The veterans had no convincing evidence to support their claims, and yet… middle of paper… at least for us, and that's about as real as you can get ¨(158). He does a good job in supporting his arguments with the examples given, this strengthens and presents the book in a well-organized way. As for the weak points of the book, there was some confusion at the end of the chapter because there was too much of it of abbreviations that made it difficult to keep up. This caused confusion when reading and the need to go back to understand what the meaning of the abbreviations were. For example, in chapter 6 he used FCC,RJR,MBD,GGOOB, and others that caused uncertainty while reading. If he eliminated some of these abbreviations or reminded the reader what they stood for, it could reduce this confusion. Although this was the one flaw that stood out the most, Farhad Manjoo managed to start and finish the book curiosity. for human prejudices.
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