Steven Brill

In a reporting tour de force that made national headlines and The New York Times bestseller list, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children—and points the way to reversing that failure.In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children—and points the way to reversing that failure.Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battles, he also concludes with a surprising prescription for what it will take from both sides to put the American dream back in America’s schools.

America's Bitter Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America’s core values—meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself—have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and brightest, whose positions at the top have never been more secure or more remote. The result has been an erosion of responsibility and accountability, an epidemic of shortsightedness, an increasingly hollow economic and political center, and millions of Americans gripped by apathy and hopelessness. By examining the people and forces behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, Brill answers the question on everyone’s How did we end up this way? Finally, he introduces us to those working quietly and effectively to repair the damages. At once a diagnosis of our national ills, a history of their development, and a prescription for a brighter future, Tailspin is a work of riveting journalism—and a welcome antidote to political despair.

A best-selling author documents how facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally, and how belief in “alternative facts” and conspiracy theories have destroyed trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts.Drawing on the front-row seat he has had as the co-founder of a company that uses journalists to track online misinformation, Steven Brill takes us inside the decisions made by executives in Silicon Valley to code the algorithms embedded in their social media platforms to maximize profits by pushing divisive content. He unravels the ingenious creation of automated advertising buying systems that reward that eye-attracting content, and describes the exploitation of that ad-driven machinery by politicians, hucksters, and conspiracy theorists. He also explains how the most powerful adversaries of America have used these American-made social media and advertising tools against us with massive disinformation campaigns.Brill explains how with the development of generative artificial intelligence everything could get exponentially worse—unless we act. Apropos, in The Death of Truth, he offers thoughtful, provocative but realistic prescriptions for how we can act and reverse course—proposals that are certain to stir debate, and even action. Finally, Brill chillingly recounts how his company’s role in exposing Russian disinformation operations resulted in a Russian agent targeting him and his family.

Considers how America has and has not changed in the year after September 11, recounting events in the White House, Capitol corridors, Red Cross boardroom, military training centers, and civilian homes to reveal how the nation is managing grief and working to defend itself from further attacks. 150,000 first printing.

A GRIPPING CHRONICLE OF THE ARMY THAT KEEPS AMERICA MOVING - OR CAN STOP IT OVERNIGHT! They control the lion's share of American wealth. They are on of the largest private sources of real estate investment capital in the world. Their very name stirs whispers of corruption, racketeering, pension fraud, political manipulation - and fanatic loyalty from most of the 2.3 members in - and out- of the driver's seat. Steven Brill probes deep into the heart and gut of the nation . . . into the Hoffa murder . . . the Nixon-Fitzsimmons-Watergate connection . . . the pension fund that became the underworld's bank with interest-free, nonrepayable "loans" . . . . the violent, ironic history . . . and the lives of its leaders and rank-and-file. THE TEAMSTERS

From Simon & Schuster, Trial by Jury is Steven Brill's exploration of the tactics, deals, and decisions that determined the outcome of 17 of the decade's biggest legal cases.Analyzes seventeen recent courtroom trials, offering a look at how the American justice system operates, through interviews with attorneys, jurors, and other key personalities.

Defend yourself — fight back! Learn avoidance tactics, escape techniques, and counterattacks shown with illustrations. Practice self defense with a focus on awareness and breakaways. Geared toward senior citizens — and useful to all ages. Scenarios discussed include protection while at home, traveling, in public spaces, malls and parking lots. Based on self-defense classes taught by the author, a contributor to national martial arts magazines.

En la muerte de la verdad, Steven brill explora el creciente problema que hay acerca de la desinformación y como eso está afectando a la confianza en los hechos, las insitituciones y al periodismo. A través de investigaciones y de datos verídicos, Brill analiza el papel de las redes sociales, los algoritmos y la falta de regulación en la difusión de noticias falsas. Este libro no solo denuncia esta crisis, sino que propone soluciones concretas para fortalecer la democracia en la era digital. Es una lectura esencial para entender los desafíos informativos del siglo XXI y cómo enfrentarlos.El libro no solo denuncia esta crisis, sino que también propone soluciones concretas para restaurar la verdad y fortalecer la democracia en la era digital. Una lectura esencial para entender los desafíos informativos del siglo XXI y cómo enfrentarlos.

Quello della formazione dell’opinione pubblica in rete, all’interno di un ecosistema totalmente disintermediato, è il tema più importante della nostra contemporaneità, che può minare le fondamenta stesse della democrazia. Steven Brill esamina il “mix tossico” di disinformazione, informazioni errate, miti, “fatti” alternativi e teorie del complotto che sono proliferati online, portando a una mancanza di fede nelle verità condivise, sfiducia nella legittimità della scienza e della competenza e un’erosione del nostro senso di comunità. Sottolineando l’urgenza di una profonda presa di coscienza collettiva, l’autore restituisce in questo saggio un quadro nitido e senza infingimenti della situazione, e traccia una strada per evitare che la rivoluzione digitale ci travolga vigilare sugli algoritmi pericolosi, chiedere la fine dell’anonimato online, verificare l’attendibilità delle notizie in rete e promuovere l’alfabetizzazione informativa per gli studenti. Un libro tanto documentato quanto drammaticamente attuale, perché mai come oggi si rivela profetico il paradosso di Oscar «Chi dice la verità, prima o poi, viene scoperto»Se persone diverse credono a versioni diverse della verità, significa che non ne esiste una reale, condivisa da tutti. Al suo posto troviamo menzogne, “realtà” inventate di sana pianta, manipolazioni, distorsioni e paranoie; il caos soppianta la ragione e la civiltà; il potere non deriva dalla discussione rigorosa delle idee all’interno del processo democratico, ma viene dato a chi riesce a seminare più diffidenza per raggiungere i propri scopi. «Un’inchiesta innovativa, documentata e onesta di due dei dilemmi centrali del nostro cos’è la verità, e dove trovarla». Bob Woodward «La scomparsa della verità è la storia definitiva di un mondo in crisi, e un tentativo di affrontare questa crisi. Dalla Silicon Valley a Madison Avenue, dal 6 gennaio a Mosca, Brill ha dato un filo conduttore coerente a tutte le vicende che ci hanno diviso, ossia l’impossibilità di trovare una verità condivisa». The New York Times

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