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ISBN-101668050498
ISBN-139781668050491
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Book TitleGhosts of Iron Mountain : The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals about America Today
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicHoaxes & Deceptions, Political Ideologies / Radicalism, American Government / National, United States / General
GenrePolitical Science, True Crime, History
AuthorPhil Tinline
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight17.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2024-952987
Reviews"DEEPLY INSIGHTFUL...A masterly account of how post-World War II America succumbed to a paranoia that still has many of its citizens chasing extremes." --James Ball, author of Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World "PACEY AND ENGAGING...Tinline retells the story of the hoax government study that declared permanent war indispensable to societal stability...Both the immediate response to the Report and its enduring legacy reveal the extent of Americans' suspicions of and alienation from their government and help make sense of the apparent insanity of QAnon and other deep-state conspiracy theories." --Laura Beers, author of Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century "UNPUTDOWNABLE. This superb story of a runaway hoax peels back like an onion. By the time you get to the deepest layer, everything you thought you knew about politics is transformed." --Bradley Garrett, author of Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse, "[How] a zany '60s leftist hoax became a progenitor of Trumpism....[This] account of a jest gone terribly wrong makes for fascinating--and eye-opening--reading." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Diligently traced...Tinline offers nothing less than an alternative history of the late twentieth century, in which an off-beat satire ends up perpetuating the 'paranoid style' of American politics." -- Booklist (starred), "A SUPERB WORK OF JOURNALISM, HISTORY, AND POLITICAL INSIGHT, a brilliant true story about a brilliant fake story. We must all give thanks to Phil Tinline for exposing this conspiracy of conspiracies, this scheme of schemes--a story so good that, once you see it, you see it everywhere." --Nathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix and Wellness, "[How] a zany '60s leftist hoax became a progenitor of Trumpism....[This] account of a jest gone terribly wrong makes for fascinating--and eye-opening--reading." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred), "Astonishing...the history of a brilliantly conceived spoof that has quite unintentionally changed the course of history, feeding a frenzy of conspiratorially minded narratives that have poisoned the electorate and threatens our civic discourse. The spoof would be hilarious if it were not so dangerous." --from the Foreword by Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus, inspiration for the film Oppenheimer, "A GRIPPING, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, REAL-LIFE HISTORICAL THRILLER...Rollercoastering from past to present, Ghosts of Iron Mountain reveals why many among us clutch at yarns about evil cabals and shadowy powerbrokers." --Brian Klaas, Contributing Writer at The Atlantic and author of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters "PERSPECTIVE SHIFTING... Ghosts of Iron Mountain tells a story that subverts expectations of a perfectly polarized leftwing and rightwing mindset in the US." --Whitney Phillips, coauthor of The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-Liberal Demonology Possessed US Religion, Media, and Politics "A PAGE-TURNING, RIPPING GOOD READ...It is, in fact, a true story about us, our beliefs and fears, our political choices, and our paranoia about power. Read it and be awakened." --Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational "DEEPLY INSIGHTFUL...A masterly account of how post-World War II America succumbed to a paranoia that still has many of its citizens chasing extremes." --James Ball, author of Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World "PACEY AND ENGAGING...Tinline retells the story of the hoax government study that declared permanent war indispensable to societal stability...Both the immediate response to the Report and its enduring legacy reveal the extent of Americans' suspicions of and alienation from their government and help make sense of the apparent insanity of QAnon and other deep-state conspiracy theories." --Laura Beers, author of Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century "UNPUTDOWNABLE. This superb story of a runaway hoax peels back like an onion. By the time you get to the deepest layer, everything you thought you knew about politics is transformed." --Bradley Garrett, author of Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal001.9/5
SynopsisA compelling work of investigative journalism that explores the surprising origins and hidden ramifications of an epic late 1960s hoax, perpetrated by cultural luminaries, including Victor Navasky and E.L. Doctorow. For readers curious about the surprising connections between John F. Kennedy, Oliver Stone, Timothy McVeigh, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump. Delve into the labyrinth of America's conspiracy culture with this investigative masterpiece that unearths the roots of our era's most potent myths. In 1966, amid unrest over the Vietnam War and the alarming growth of the military-industrial complex, little-known writer Leonard Lewin was approached by a group of ingenious satirists on the Left to concoct a document that would pretend to ratify everyone's fears that the government was deceiving the public. Devoting more than a year to the project, Lewin constructed a fiction (passed off as the honest truth) that a government-run Study Group had been charged with examining the "cost of peace," setting its first meetings in the very real Iron Mountain nuclear bunker in upstate New York (which lent the resulting book, Report from Iron Mountain , its name). In Lewin's telling, this gathering of the nation's academic elite concluded that suspending war would be disastrous , forcing all sorts of bizarre measures to compensate. Lewin didn't realize it at the time, but he'd created a narrative that fed the interests of both ends of the political spectrum--by promoting the idea that the government uses centralized power for evil. What fascinates about Phil Tinline's revelation-filled recreation of that ingenious hoax is seeing how it explodes into America's consciousness, dominates media reports, and sends government officials scrambling. And then, subsequently, how Lewin's fabrication is adopted by a seemingly endless string of extremist organizations which view it as supporting their ideology. In this riveting--and, at times, chilling--tale of a deception that refuses to die is an unsettling warning about how, in contemporary times, a hoax may no longer be a hoax if it can be used to recruit followers to a cause.
LC Classification NumberE839.T59 2025
