| NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE The Surreal Heart of the New Russia Peter Pomerantsev New York: PublicAffairs, November 2015 |
Rating: 4.5 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-61039-600-4 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-61039-600-6 | 243pp. | SC/GSI | $16.99 | |
| Page 147: | "In the Cold War, it was spies who knew this country, studied it, poured over every detail: every block of high-rises, every muddy road, every factory. Now it is modeling scouts.." |
| Vocabulary: S/B "pored". (This could be an editor's goof.) |
| Page 150: | "The ad catapulted Ruslana into the jet set. Jerry Epstein, the head of Bear Stearns, famous for his love of teenage girls (he was later jailed for statutory rape), flew her down to his private Caribbean island." |
| Misidentification: S/B "Jeffrey Epstein". (I might also criticize the author's use of the bald-faced "jailed"; Epstein's treatment was far more lenient than that accorded the ordinary criminal.) |
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