Doublethink In the case of workers at the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, doublethink means being able to falsify public records, and then believe in the new history that they themselves have just rewritten. As revealed in Goldstein's Book, the Ministry's name is itself an example of doublethink: the Ministry of Truth is really concerned with lies. The other ministries of Airstrip One are similarly named: the Ministry of Peace is concerned with war, the Ministry of Love is concerned with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty is concerned with starvation. The three slogans of the Party—"War is Peace",
Disturbing the Peace (novel) writer. While Yates' short-story collection "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" was celebrated, his second novel "A Special Providence" was panned. The lackluster sales and critical reception for "Disturbing the Peace" convinced many that "like Fitzgerald and so many others, he’d squandered his talent, drank it away." This reputation persisted until the following year when Yates published his acclaimed novel "The Easter Parade". For some period of time, Joe Pesci held the film rights but never acted on it. Disturbing the Peace (novel) Disturbing the Peace is a novel by American writer Richard Yates. First published in 1975, Yates' fourth book concerns