Summary
From the bestselling author of Them: Adventures with Extremists, the “hilarious and unsettling” (The Boston Globe) true story about what happened when a small group of men–highly placed within the US military, government, and intelligence services–began believing in very strange things.
In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice–and indeed, the laws of physics–they believed that a so…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743270601 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743270606 |
| Author: | Jon Ronson |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 148mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
“A hilarious and unsettling book…. Ronson comes off as an unusual cross between Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh.”
– The Boston Globe
“Ronson sets his book up beautifully. It moves with wry precise agility from crackpot to crackpot in its search for the essence of this early New Age creativity…. “
– Janet Maslin, The New York Times
About The Author
Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson is a documentary filmmaker and author. He lives in London.
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