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"I am a New York Times addict," says M.P. Prabhakaran in the preface to this book. The book is the result of that addiction. When The Times started publishing its online version, it came as a boon to habitual letter-writers like Prabhakaran. Unlike the print version, the online version instantly publishes the comments sent to it, except the ones The Times finds too offensive. Ever since Donald Trump became the president of the United States, Prabhakaran found the blunders he made and the lies he uttered not just worth commenting upon. He considered it his responsibility to bring them to the attention of Times readers. The main reason he says is that when the president of the U.S. uses his bully pulpit to spread falsehoods, the general public tends to believe them as true. And with disastrous consequences, not only to the U.S., but also to the rest of the world. Though the U.S. is still reeling from the damage he caused to its enviable democratic processes and institutions during his first term as president, he has been anointed by the Republican Party as its presidential candidate for a second term. This book is an earnest effort on the part of Prabhakaran to prevent Donald Trump from regaining the presidency.

Most of his working life, M. P. Prabhakaran straddled two professions: journalism and teaching. He started his career in journalism in 1969 as a cub reporter on Current, a weekly newspaper (now defunct) published from Bombay (later renamed Mumbai).He then moved on, as a copy editor, to March of the Nation, another Bombay-based English weekly (also defunct now) and then, to Free Press Journal, one of India's leading English dailies.After immigrating to the U.S. in 1975, Prabhakaran worked as the editor, first of The Voice of India, a monthly, and later, of South Asia News Special, a news and feature syndicate.Side by side with his work in journalism, he pursued a Ph.D. in Political Science at the New School for Social Research, New York. After completing the Ph.D., in 1988, he taught for several years as an adjunct professor of political science, at the City University of New York.Since 2001, Prabhakaran has been traveling extensively and posting his travel experience on The East West Inquirer, an online monthly he started that year. The East-West Inquirer, published at www.eastwestinquirer.com, also carries his social and political commentaries.