Tangled Webs: How False Statements Are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff

By James B. Stewart

Book Overview

Bestselling author James B. Stewart investigates our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic. America faces a crisis: an explosion of perjury and false statements occurring at the highest levels of business, politics, sports, and culture. In Tangled Webs, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James B. Stewart applies his investigative reporting and storytelling skills to four dramatic cases, all involving people at the top of their fields: Martha Stewart, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Barry Bonds, and notorious financier Bernard Madoff. Stewart draws on extensive interviews with participants-many speaking here for the first time- and previously undisclosed documents to show how such successful role models found themselves accused of criminal deception.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143120573
• ISBN13: 9780143120575
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher