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"Character assassination" as a book category encompasses works—both nonfiction and fiction—that center on the deliberate damage or destruction of an individual's reputation through lies, rumor, manipulation, media campaigns, legal attacks, or social ostracism. Nonfiction examples include investigative journalism, political biographies, memoirs, and legal analyses that document real-world smear campaigns and the mechanics of defamation; fiction examples range from political and legal thrillers to literary novels that dramatize how reputations are wrecked and lives unraveled. Common themes are power, truth versus perception, media and propaganda, social psychology, justice and redemption, and the ethical and legal consequences of reputational warfare. These books tend to be suspenseful, often forensic in detail, and appeal to readers interested in politics, media dynamics, law, human behavior, and the moral complexities of public shaming.

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