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The back of the book shows these blurbs: “Annalee Newitz’s thoroughly researched and masterfully crafted book gives us something hopeful—a way to disarm the narratives that have been used against us and reclaim better ones.” —Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winning author of An Immense World    “A brilliant historical deep dive into psyops, military covert influence operations and the corporate attempts to conquer the mind. This will change the way you understand America.” —Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood  “A penetrating, passionately reasoned analysis of how propaganda and disinformation have been used as tactics of both hard and soft wars, and how we continue to be manipulated today. This is a storyteller’s account of the devastating force of storytelling.” —Angela Saini, author of The Patriarchs  “Annalee Newitz shows how words can have more power than even bullets and bombs. A read very much worth your time, as much to make you rethink the world around you.” —P. W. Singer, co-author of LikeWar “Illuminating and energizing, Stories Are Weapons can help us defuse the propaganda bombs going off all around us. It also shows how we can come together to tell different stories—stories to shed light in the darkness, make sense amid chaos, and forge hope and community instead of fear and isolation.” —Astra Taylor, author of The Age of Insecurity