David Oliver Relin And John Krakauer's Three Cups Of Deceit: Literary Analysis
Krakauer’s work demonstrates that a credible investigative journalist has a responsibility to base his arguments on truth …show more content…
His most blatant fallacies are appeals to emotion and hasty generalizations based on insufficient evidence. Through attacks on Mortenson that characterize him as an “unmasked . . . self-aggrandizing fabulist . . . [with a] virulent strain of megalomania” and a “charlatan,” Krakauer personally attacks Mortenson rather than his claims, committing argumentum ad hominem and adding nothing to his own argument (Krakauer XIII, 107,