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Them: Adventures with Extremists

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Them: Adventures with Extremists
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jon Ronson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9780330375467
ClassificationsDewey:322.42
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 5 January 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Britain's funniest and most insightful satirist investigates the world of 'them' and 'us'; Is there really, as the extremists claim, a secret room from which a tiny elite secretly rules the world? And if so, can it be found? Them: Adventures with Extremists is a romp into the heart of darkness involving 12-foot lizard-men, PR-conscious Ku Klux Klansmen, Ian Paisley, Hollywood limousines, the legend of Ruby Ridge, Noam Chomsky, a harem of kidnapped sex slaves, David lcke, and Nicolae Ceausescu's shoes. While Jon Ronson attemps to locate the secret room, he is chased by men in dark glasses, unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp, and witnesses CEOs and leading politicians undertake a bizarre pagan owl ritual in the forests of Northern California. He also learns some alarming things about the looking-glass world of them and us. Are the extremists right? Or has he become one of Them?

Author Biography

Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of three bestsellers: Them: Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test, and two collections, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More True Tales. He lives in London.

Reviews

'A funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world' Louis Theroux, Guardian; 'Very entertaining and very frightening' Q magazine