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First published as A Field Guide to Lies in the United States of America by Dutton 2016

First published in Great Britain by Viking 2016

First published as Weaponized Lies in the United States of America by Dutton 2017

Published in Penguin Books 2017

Copyright © Daniel J. Levitin, 2016, 2017

The moral right of the author has been asserted

Cover design by Mecob

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All art courtesy of the author unless otherwise noted.

Images here, here, here, here, and here © 2016 by Dan Piraro, used by permission; image here drawn by Dan Piraro, based on an image by Irving Geis in How to Lie with Statistics, © 1954

Image here © 2016 by Alex Tabarrok, used by permission.

Image here was drawn by the author, based on a figure under Creative Commons license appearing on www.betterposters.blogspot.com,

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ISBN: 978-0-241-31357-2