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Deep Fake
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781736050644
Publisher: Slaughter & Associates
Published: Apr 10 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When a commercial jet crashes over suburban Washington, D.C., killing 186 people, national grief quickly curdles into fury. Leaked documents reveal the airline's involvement in a controversial Equity Pilot Program, sparking nationwide outrage, and though no link is proven, failed billionaire turned media provocateur Julius Maddox seizes the moment-with a single incendiary phrase: They died for diversity.
Broadcasting from a dingy apartment in Detroit, Maddox becomes the voice of the disillusioned. His viral movement-#ReclaimAmerica-ignites across the country, tapping into the nation's rawest emotions: anger, pride, fear. Facts become negotiable. Feeling becomes truth.
In Chicago, political psychologist Dr. Lena Morris watches with growing dread. She sees the patterns Maddox is following: repetition, symbolism, identity over ideology. What he's building isn't just a campaign-it's a belief system. And it echoes the darkest chapters of history.
As Maddox ascends to the presidency, embedding his ideology into law, education, and daily life, Lena races to expose the machinery of mass persuasion. But the deeper she digs, the more chilling the reality: once emotional belief takes root, it doesn't just distort the truth-it replaces it.
Even after Maddox's fall, the system he built endures: a framework of emotional control, cultural myth-making, and weaponized nostalgia. America remains fractured-uncertain whether it can reclaim its sense of truth, or if belief has permanently eclipsed reality.
In a world where facts are fragile and feelings reign supreme; the real threat isn't the man.
It's the method.
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