American Hero by Larry Beinhart. This book was the basis for Wag The Dog. While it is fiction, it has a wonderful account of how memetics works. Beinhart creates a beuatiful picture of how spin doctors (meme wranglers) work in modern society, on many different levels and through many size worlds.
It is a good read.
Tim Rhodes wrote:
>I'm between books and everything in my `to read' stack is non-fiction.
Any
>suggestions for a good bit of fiction?
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>-Prof. Tim
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