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

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Bestselling author James B. Stewart investigates our era’s mosthigh-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this nationalepidemic.

America faces a crisis: an explosion of perjury and falsestatements occurring at the highest levels of business, politics,sports, and culture. In Tangled Webs, Pulitzer Prize-winning authorJames B. Stewart applies his investigative reporting and storytellingskills to four dramatic cases, all involving people at the top of theirfields: Martha Stewart, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Barry Bonds, andnotorious financier Bernard Madoff. Stewart draws on extensiveinterviews with participants-many speaking here for the first time- andpreviously undisclosed documents to show how such successful rolemodels found themselves accused of criminal deception.