| WAR MADE EASY: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death Norman Solomon New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2005 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN 0-471-69479-7 | 314p. | HC | $24.95 | |
| Prologue: Building Agendas for War | 1 |
| 1: America Is a Fair and Noble Superpower | 27 |
| 2: Our Leaders Will Do Everything They Can to Avoid War | 35 |
| 3: Our Leaders Would Never Tell Us Outright Lies | 55 |
| 4: This Guy Is a Modern-Day Hitler | 63 |
| 5: This Is About Human Rights | 75 |
| 6: This Is Not at All About Oil or Corporate Profits | 87 |
| 7: They Are the Aggressors, Not Us | 97 |
| 8: If This War Is Wrong, Congress Will Stop It | 103 |
| 9: If This War Is Wrong, the Media Will Tell Us | 113 |
| 10: Media Coverage Brings War into Our Living Rooms | 133 |
| 11: Opposing the War Means Siding with the Enemy | 155 |
| 12: This Is a Necessary Battle in the War on Terrorism | 167 |
| 13: What the U.S. Government Needs Most Is Better PR | 177 |
| 14: The Pentagon Fights Wars as Humanely as Possible | 185 |
| 15: Our Soldiers Are Heroes, Theirs Are Inhuman | 203 |
| 16: America Needs the Resolve To Kick the "Vietnam Syndrome" | 211 |
| 17: Withdrawal Would Cripple U.S. Credibility | 221 |
| Afterword | 233 |
| Notes | 239 |
| Acknowledgements | 293 |
| Index | 295 |
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