Demonstrating the candor and conviction that have made him one of our most trusted and incisive public voices, The New York Times columnist Frank Rich brilliantly and meticulously illuminates the Bush administration's disturbing love affair with ?truthiness.? Rich's step-by-step chronicle shows how, in the wake of 9/11, a propaganda president and his advisors misled a nation into war in Iraq and how the bungled aftermath, a Washington leak, and a devastating hurricane at long last revealed the lies in a story that had been so effectively sold to the nation as God-given patriotic fact.

Larry Kramer has been described by Susan Sontag as one of America's most valuable troublemakers. As Frank Rich writes in his Foreword to this new collection of writings for the screen and stage, his plays are almost journalistic in their observation of the fine-grained documentary details of life . . . in drama that may well prove timeless. The title work, the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Women in Love, is a movie as sensuous as anything you've probably ever seen on film (The New York Times). The screenplay is accompanied by Kramer's reflections on the history of the production, sure to be...

-A thesis of a play, unafraid of complexities and contradictions, pepped up with a light dramatic fizz. It asks whether race is skin-deep, actable or even fakeable, and it does so with huge wit and brio.- -TimeOut London
-A pungent play of ideas with a big heart. Yellow Face brings to the national discussion about race a sense of humor a mile wide, an even-handed treatment and a hopeful, healing vision of a world that could be- -Variety
-It's about our country, about public image, about face, - says David Henry Hwang about his latest work, a mock documentary that...