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Foxocracy

Author : Tobin Smith
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1635766621
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Foxocracy written by Tobin Smith and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a 14-year Fox News contributor, guest anchor, and two-time New York Times bestselling author comes an unprecedented insider's account of the Fox News playbook––the production secrets and manipulation strategies Fox News uses to influence viewers, divide families, weaponize the daily discourse of news and public opinion, and addict a core audience on right-wing rage and fear. Fox News did not start America's culture war––but they did have the manipulative and destructive genius to exploit it for billions of dollars. For the first time, a Fox News veteran exposes and diagrams the toxic strategies and tactics within the Fox News playbook that liberal and progressive candidates will be fighting against in 2020 and beyond. It is the very same playbook that Fox News used to move twelve percent of Independents to vote for Donald Trump in 2016 to produce Republican wins in the previous Democrat strongholds of Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Author Tobin Smith takes readers behind the scenes of the actual production of the "fair and balanced" opinion panel segments that feed a ravenous audience. How are these productions rigged so that right-wing pundits always win? What techniques does Fox News use in manipulating its viewers' tribal instincts: to addict them; to activate a hatred toward partisan enemies; and to hook them on ego-gratifying feelings of intellectual and cultural superiority? Foxocracy is filled with never-revealed conversations with Fox News executives––including the late Roger Ailes––and opinion programming producers. It breaks down the real and often heartbreaking collateral damage among friends and family caused by the waging of an endless culture war. And it brings incendiary proof from an insider and on-air talent of Fox News's predatory audience manipulation psychology and production tactics. And perhaps even more frightening, this book reveals how that playbook is now being insidiously upgraded for maximum effect––white tribal-identity activation––on all forms of social media and means of content delivery.

Summary of Tobin Smith's Foxocracy

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Tobin Smith's Foxocracy written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Tobin Smith's Foxocracy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Foxocracy" by Tobin Smith examines the Fox News Channel's (FNC) strategy of exploiting white tribal identity to influence American conservatives. The book details how FNC's emotionally charged content creates deep political and cultural divides, often leading to isolation and health issues among its predominantly older white American viewership. Smith draws parallels between FNC's tactics and 1930s German propaganda, emphasizing the network's destructive potential...

The Great Dismissal

Author : Henry Sussman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150139231X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Great Dismissal written by Henry Sussman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades. How are we to reckon with the decline of impartiality and sharp increase in self-interested interference in politic, legal, and cultural spheres; the normalization of pathological narcissism in public life; and the blanket dismissal of scientific findings and their counterparts in the humanities and social sciences? In retracing his own intellectual and experiential steps, Sussman revisits many of his lasting inspirations, including Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Immanuel Kant, and J. Hillis Miller. The result is an intellectual meditation on 'the great dismissal,' in public and political life, of venerable and vital humanistic traditions, ethics, and ways of thinking.

Fake News Is Bad News

Author : Ján Višňovský
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1839624213
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Fake News Is Bad News written by Ján Višňovský and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in the era of the digital revolution characterized by easy access to obtaining, processing and disseminating information on a global scale. The emergence of these global digital spaces has transformed the world of communication. This shift in our understanding of what we should be informed about, when and how, manifests itself not only within mature liberal democracies, which grant their citizens and the media constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and rights associated with obtaining information, but also within developing countries with different types of political establishments. Moreover, many media producers, especially journalists and persons claiming to be journalists, abuse their crucial mission and, instead, foster a set of serious communication phenomena that threaten basic human rights and freedoms, weaken them or decelerate their development. The publication is focused on the ways fake news, disinformation, misinformation and hateful statements are spread across society, predominantly within the online environment. Its main ambition is to offer an interdisciplinary body of scholarly knowledge on fake news, disinformation and propaganda in relation to today’s journalism, social development, political situation and cultural affairs happening all around the world.

Presidential Power Meets the Art of the Deal

Author : Todd M. Schaefer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030560295
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Presidential Power Meets the Art of the Deal written by Todd M. Schaefer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work attempts to understand the chaotic and enigmatic presidency of Donald Trump through Neustadt’s iconic work on presidential power and bargaining. Neustadt’s model explains much of Trump’s difficulties in office, but not his relative success. It argues he defies expectation due to new political realities such as party polarization, a transformed media, and the administrative presidency.

Foxocracy: Inside Fox News' Weaponized Civil War: (+ How We Fight Back and Win!)

Author : Tobin Smith
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781457565847
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Foxocracy: Inside Fox News' Weaponized Civil War: (+ How We Fight Back and Win!) written by Tobin Smith and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NY Times bestselling author and former Fox News analyst/contributor (2000-2013) Tobin Smith is the first veteran FNC insider to expose the bombshell secrets buried deep inside Fox News that even the most critical media has missed. In this firsthand expose of Fox News' tribal activation agenda and fraudulent production tactics, Smith gives all Americans a major wakeup call about the never disclosed family and personal health risks associated with addiction to Fox News' brand of weaponized tribal fear, rage and blame "pornography" which Fox calls "opinion panel programming." Under the pretense of their "news" division, Smith makes a convincing case that the REAL business of Fox News has always been a carefully orchestrated fake opinion debate conspiracy. While disclosing dozens of never revealed and well-guarded production secrets learned from FNC's programming executives, Smith details how the 2,000+ Fox's "fair and balanced" right/ left opinion debates he appeared in were secretly rigged by Fox News producers for the rightwing performers to always "win." "Fox News business model and its "fair and balanced" panel debate scam morphed into the unconscionable: We went from entertaining elderly right wing partisans by eviscerating 3rd rate leftwing "libtards" on their TV to purposely fomenting and monetizing cultural/political tribal warfare and class resentment. Even more despicably, this $multi-billion public company purposely targets and emotionally manipulates America's most emotionally vulnerable citizens. What the media and government fails to understand is 1) the audience reach of Fox News' addictive brand of fixed outcome tribalism with social media redistribution now reaches 100+ million Americans monthly and 2) Fox News' tribal hate porn programming has become a selfreinforcing and massively destructive tribal activation digital feedback loop ensnaring millions. - Tobin Smith '' Smith asks the question: When do we have the public reckoning for Fox News and regulate this democracy crushing insanity like the national reckoning from the whistleblowing revelations about Facebook? FOXOCRACY pulls the curtain back on Fox News' to prevent further damage to America's democracy and millions of estranged families who've lost parents and siblings to what Smith identifies as an epidemic of "Fox News Social Derangement Disorder" in its most addicted viewers.

Deplorable

Author : Mary E. Stuckey
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271092017
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Deplorable written by Mary E. Stuckey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political campaigns in the United States, especially those for the presidency, can be nasty—very nasty. And while we would like to believe that the 2020 election was an aberration, insults, invective, and yes, even violence have characterized US electoral politics since the republic’s early days. By examining the political discourse around nine particularly deplorable elections, Mary E. Stuckey seeks to explain why. From the contest that pitted Thomas Jefferson against John Adams in 1800 through 2020’s vicious, chaotic matchup between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Stuckey documents the cycle of despicable discourse in presidential campaigns. Looking beyond the character and the ideology of the candidates, Stuckey explores the broader political, economic, and cultural milieus in which each took place. In doing so, she reveals the conditions that exacerbate and enable our worst political instincts, producing discourses that incite factions, target members of the polity, encourage undemocratic policy, and actively work against the national democratic project. Keenly analytical and compulsively readable, Deplorable provides context for the 2016 and 2020 elections, revealing them as part of a cyclical—and perhaps downward-spiraling—pattern in American politics. Deplorable offers more than a comparison of the worst of our elections. It helps us understand these shameful and disappointing moments in our political history, leaving one important question: Can we avoid them in the future?

Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World

Author : Dalkir, Kimiz
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799825450
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World written by Dalkir, Kimiz and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current day and age, objective facts have less influence on opinions and decisions than personal emotions and beliefs. Many individuals rely on their social networks to gather information thanks to social media’s ability to share information rapidly and over a much greater geographic range. However, this creates an overall false balance as people tend to seek out information that is compatible with their existing views and values. They deliberately seek out “facts” and data that specifically support their conclusions and classify any information that contradicts their beliefs as “false news.” Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World is a collection of innovative research on human and automated methods to deter the spread of misinformation online, such as legal or policy changes, information literacy workshops, and algorithms that can detect fake news dissemination patterns in social media. While highlighting topics including source credibility, share culture, and media literacy, this book is ideally designed for social media managers, technology and software developers, IT specialists, educators, columnists, writers, editors, journalists, broadcasters, newscasters, researchers, policymakers, and students.

All That's Not Fit to Print

Author : Amy Affelt
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789733618
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book All That's Not Fit to Print written by Amy Affelt and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fake news may have reached new notoriety since the 2016 US election, but it has been around a long time. In All That’s Not Fit to Print, Amy Affelt offers tools and techniques for spotting fake news and discusses best practices for finding high quality sources, information, and data.

Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims

Author : Rush Limbaugh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476755914
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims written by Rush Limbaugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America’s #1 radio talk-show host and multi-million-copy #1 New York Times bestselling author, a book for young readers with a history teacher who travels back in time to have adventures with exceptional Americans. MEET RUSH LIMBAUGH’S REALLY GOOD PAL, RUSH REVERE! Okay, okay, my name’s really Rusty—but my friends call me Rush. Rush Revere. Because I’ve always been the #1 fan of the coolest colonial dude ever, Paul Revere. Talk about a rock star—this guy wanted to protect young America so badly, he rode through those bumpy, cobblestone-y streets shouting “the British are coming!” On a horse. Top of his lungs. Wind blowing, rain streaming... Well, you get the picture. But what if you could get the real picture—by actually going back in time and seeing with your own eyes how our great country came to be? Meeting the people who made it all happen—people like you and me? Hold on to your pointy triangle hats, because you can—with me, Rush Revere, seemingly ordinary substitute history teacher, as your tour guide across time! “How?” you ask? Well, there’s this portal. And a horse. My talking horse named Liberty. And—well, just trust me, I’ll get us there. We’ll begin by joining a shipload of brave families journeying on the Mayflower in 1620. Yawn? I don’t think so. 1620 was a pretty awesome time, and you’ll experience exactly what they did on that rough, dangerous ocean crossing. Together, we’ll ask the pilgrims all our questions, find out how they live, join them at the first Thanksgiving, and much more. So saddle up and let’s ride! Our exceptional nation is waiting to be discovered all over again by exceptional young patriots—like you!

Grace Canceled

Author : Dana Loesch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684510449
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Grace Canceled written by Dana Loesch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A society addicted to outrage is in trouble. It's a seductive yet toxic drug that kills reason, nuance, and kindness. Dana Loesch has been the target of as much outrage as anyone. And as she forthrightly acknowledges here, she has dished it out as well. As passionately attached to faith and freedom as ever, she warns that our addiction to outrage has debased our politics and reduced us to a vicious tribalism. The antidote to outrage is grace—a generous and forgiving spirit that tolerates those with whom one disagrees and offers redemption to the offender. But grace is hard even under the best conditions, and leftist rage mobs have stoked the fires of anger so assiduously—with help from some of their foes on the right—that grace is almost impossible. Fortunately, as Dana reminds us, grace comes from God, who specializes in the impossible. In Grace Canceled, Dana Loesch explains: • How America got cut up into competing tribes • Why a society without grace falls for socialism • Why outrage makes us dumb • How violence became an acceptable political tactic on the left • When anger is called for and when it's just self-indulgence • The three golden rules of a happy warrior Make no mistake: our freedom, our faith, our very way of life are under attack. The stakes are incredibly high, and Dana doesn't pretend they aren't. But the social justice warriors are already slaves of outrage, and if the rest of us become slaves as well, then no one wins.

ChangeWave Investing 2.0

Author : Tobin Smith
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0385504950
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book ChangeWave Investing 2.0 written by Tobin Smith and published by Currency. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment guru Tobin Smith reveals his secrets for scoring monster returns in today’s volatile stock market by focusing on the emerging sectors that have the best potential for explosive growth — what Smith refers to as ChangeWaves. ChangeWave Investing 2.0 presents a radically improved method for picking the next monster stocks while protecting current profits. Using the ChangeWave principles, the book explains: ·how to identify the stocks with the fastest growth potential before Wall Street does ·how to screen out the pretenders ·how to balance a portfolio between aggressive growth stocks and stocks with lower volatility ·how to use stop orders to limit losses from economic downturns ·how to invest limited resources for maximum returns You’ll discover how to buy and sell in the midst of a seesaw, as well as receive savvy advice on the ways you can benefit from market meltdowns by systematically taking out positions at bargain basement prices. From the rocketlike success of his first book, ChangeWave Investing, which hit the top of the business bestseller lists, to his role as contributing editor on Fox’s “Bulls and Bears,” to the rapid growth of the electronic network, Tobin Smith has broken onto the investment community with the momentum of a tsunami. Now, with ChangeWave Investing 2.0, readers can learn the strategies and techniques that will allow them to profit from the transformational change the economy is undergoing even in today’s bear market.

The Outrage Industry

Author : Jeffrey M. Berry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190498463
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Outrage Industry written by Jeffrey M. Berry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 2012, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who advocated for insurance coverage of contraceptives, "wants to be paid to have sex." Over the next few days, Limbaugh attacked Fluke personally, often in crude terms, while a powerful backlash grew, led by organizations such as the National Organization for Women. But perhaps what was most notable about the incident was that it wasn't unusual. From Limbaugh's venomous attacks on Fluke to liberal radio host Mike Malloy's suggestion that Bill O'Reilly "drink a vat of poison... and choke to death," over-the-top discourse in today's political opinion media is pervasive. Anyone who observes the skyrocketing number of incendiary political opinion shows on television and radio might conclude that political vitriol on the airwaves is fueled by the increasingly partisan American political system. But in The Outrage Industry Jeffrey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj show how the proliferation of outrage-the provocative, hyperbolic style of commentary delivered by hosts like Ed Schultz, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity- says more about regulatory, technological, and cultural changes, than it does about our political inclinations. Berry and Sobieraj tackle the mechanics of outrage rhetoric, exploring its various forms such as mockery, emotional display, fear mongering, audience flattery, and conspiracy theories. They then investigate the impact of outrage rhetoric-which stigmatizes cooperation and brands collaboration and compromise as weak-on a contemporary political landscape that features frequent straight-party voting in Congress. Outrage tactics have also facilitated the growth of the Tea Party, a movement which appeals to older, white conservatives and has dragged the GOP farther away from the demographically significant moderates whose favor it should be courting. Finally, The Outrage Industry examines how these shows sour our own political lives, exacerbating anxieties about political talk and collaboration in our own communities. Drawing from a rich base of evidence, this book forces all of us to consider the negative consequences that flow from our increasingly hyper-partisan political media.

Carnage in America

Author : Steven Weiss
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781098354244
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Carnage in America written by Steven Weiss and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carnage in America offers compelling reading from an insider on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. Candid and insightful, author and physician Steve Weiss mixes political commentary, social justice and three-plus decades of medical expertise to highlight the heavy toll the politicization of an international pandemic is taking on a nation ill-prepared to handle the crisis. -Jan Larson, Professor and Chair, Department of Communications and Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Authoritarianism

Author : Wendy Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659727X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Authoritarianism written by Wendy Brown and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to “traditional values,” in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only on the far fringes through most of the postwar era? Does it herald a new wave of authoritarianism? Is liberal democracy itself in crisis? In this volume, three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address our current predicament. Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon, and Max Pensky share a conviction that critical theory retains the power to illuminate the forces producing the current political constellation as well as possible paths away from it. Brown explains how “freedom” has become a rallying cry for manifestly un-emancipatory movements; Gordon dismantles the idea that fascism is rooted in the susceptible psychology of individual citizens and reflects instead on the broader cultural and historical circumstances that lend it force; and Pensky brings together the unlikely pair of Tocqueville and Adorno to explore how democracies can buckle under internal pressure. These incisive essays do not seek to smooth over the irrationality of the contemporary world, and they do not offer the false comforts of an easy return to liberal democratic values. Rather, the three authors draw on their deep engagements with nineteenth–and twentieth–century thought to investigate the historical and political contradictions that have brought about this moment, offering fiery and urgent responses to the demands of the day.

Hate Inc

Author : Matt Taibbi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781682194072
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Hate Inc written by Matt Taibbi and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Then the Fish Swallowed Him

Author : Amir Ahmadi Arian
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062946315
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Then the Fish Swallowed Him written by Amir Ahmadi Arian and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran—an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master’s Son—that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives. Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago, he is decidedly apolitical—even during the driver’s strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking point, and Yunus has reached his. Handcuffed and blindfolded, he is taken to the infamous Evin prison for political dissidents. Inside this stark, strangely ordered world, his fate becomes entwined with Hajj Saeed, his personal interrogator. The two develop a disturbing yet interdependent relationship, with each playing his assigned role in a high stakes psychological game of cat and mouse, where Yunus endures a mind-bending cycle of solitary confinement and interrogation. In their startlingly intimate exchanges, Yunus’s life begins to unfold—from his childhood memories growing up in a freer Iran to his heartbreaking betrayal of his only friend. As Yunus struggles to hold on to his sanity and evade Saeed’s increasingly undeniable accusations, he must eventually make an impossible choice: continue fighting or submit to the system of lies upholding Iran’s power. Gripping, startling, and masterfully told, Then the Fish Swallowed Him is a haunting story of life under despotism.