Why Leaders Lie
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics is a 2011 book by the political scientist John Mearsheimer. == Synopsis == The book argues that leaders lie to foreign audiences as well as their own people because they think it is good for their country, citing the example of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's lie about the Greer incident in August 1941, due to a deep commitment to getting the United States into World War II, which he thought was in America's national interest.