By James B. Stewart, Penguin Press, New York, N.Y. 472 pages, $29.95
In 1808, Sir Walter Scott in “Marmion, Canto VI” (it wasn’t William Shakespeare as most have believed) authored “Oh what tangled webs we weave, When first we practise to deceive.” When he did, he probably didn’t realize that one day 20th Century philistines would tersely say more crudely in its stead that, “the cover up is worse than the crime.” Nor would Sir Walter have known that James B. Stewart, the fine writer and now columnist for The New York Times, has brilliantly used those “Tangled Webs” as a title for his recent book, subtitled, and critical to this review—”How False Statements Are Undermining America.”
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