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Them:

Adventures with Extremists
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Pan Macmillan, Feb 23, 2011 - Social Science - 250 pages
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 Icke, 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? This is a fascinating investigation into extremists of every stripe. 'A funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world' Louis Theroux, Guardian 'Very entertaining and very frightening' Q magazine
  

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The writer gets caught up to easily with extremist. - Goodreads
Great amount of research, great presentation. - Goodreads
A great page turner, made me laugh at every turn. - Goodreads
This one seemed as good a starting point as any! - Goodreads
His writing is witty and captivating. - Goodreads
Witty, concise writing and surreal situations. - Goodreads

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User Review  - Mohamed - Goodreads

A balanced book about how the conspiracy theorist sum up all the information and got deluded by their own mind. Keeping the cinematic vision and suspenseful style is one of the great capabilities of ... Read full review

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User Review  - Astrid - Goodreads

Bit dated, but brought me right back to those times. Nice, funny and strangely sinister at the same time. Read full review

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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 of Everyday Craziness. He lives in London and New York City.

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