The Day America Told the Truth
The Day America Told the Truth is a 1991 non-fiction book by James Patterson and Peter Kim, published in New York by Prentice Hall Press. It reports a private survey of 2,000 Americans on sex, crime, morality and belief in God, run while both men held senior posts at the J. Walter Thompson agency.
- Editions tracked
- 1
- First edition
- Prentice-Hall, 1991
- First published
- Prentice Hall Press, New York, 1991
The first edition of The Day America Told the Truth by James Patterson was published in New York by Prentice-Hall in 1991. We track 1 edition.
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- 6 on Open Library, 5 in English
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Who published the first edition of The Day America Told the Truth?
The first edition of The Day America Told the Truth by James Patterson was published in New York by Prentice-Hall in 1991.
How many editions of The Day America Told the Truth are there?
We track 1 edition of The Day America Told the Truth, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
Where these facts come from
- The day America told the truth, Open Library (openlibrary.org)
- A peek inside our lying, cheating hearts, Newsweek (newsweek.com)
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