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America's Mata Hari? The Double Life of Esther Reed

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Importance of Truth in Life

"I married a woman who's almost constitutionally incapable of telling a lie," he says. "She'll say like, I don't want to have drinks tonight because I'm just not feeling social." The author is also deeply intrigued by these people who work to various degrees, masters of deception.

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