“With insight and clarity, Joe Conason shows how the longstanding conservative antipathy toward Social Security has morphed into a lavishly funded and breathtakingly dishonest conservative PR campaign. In untangling spools of GOP propaganda, The Raw Deal sets the record straight and shows what’s really at stake for all Americans in the current battle.”
—David Brock, President and CEO, Media Matters for America, and author of Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative

“Joe Conason is in top form, one of the progressive movement’s most important voices. No buzzword remains unchallenged, no dirty trick unexposed, no insipid argument left intact. This book is an important tool in the fight against the right-wing crusade against Social Security.”
—Markos Moulitsas, Founder, DailyKos

“Joe Conason has done it again. When Joe casts his eye on the cadres of the right, they invariably emerge battered, with their arguments filleted, their sources of money exposed, and their real motives laid bare.”
—Michael Tomasky, Executive Editor, The American Prospect

“Joe Conason is one of our great chroniclers of the right-wing propaganda machine …Let this book be your x-ray machine to see through the president’s lies about Social Security.”
—Josh Marshall, talkingpointsmemo.com