{"product_id":"ghosts-of-iron-mountain-the-hoax-of-the-century-its-enduring-impact-and-what-it-reveals-about-america-today","title":"Ghosts Of Iron Mountain: The Hoax Of The Century, Its Enduring Impact, And What It Reveals About America Today","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpellbinding. Rick Perlstein * A Clever, FastPaced Read Of Dazzling Originality. William I. HitchcockAn Excellent New Book, Both Important And Unsettling (The New York Times), Ghosts Of Iron Mountain Unravels The Astounding Origins And FarReaching Impacts Of A Monumental Late 1960S Hoax, Perpetrated By Cultural Icons Including Victor Navasky And E.L. DoctorowA MustRead For Anyone Curious About The Surprising Connections Between John F. Kennedy, Oliver Stone, Timothy Mcveigh, Alex Jones, And Donald Trump.Explore The Intricate Web Of AmericaS Conspiracy Culture With This Investigative Masterpiece That Unearths The Roots Of Our EraS Most Potent Myths.In 1966, Amid Unrest Over The Vietnam War And The Alarming Growth Of The MilitaryIndustrial Complex, LittleKnown Writer Leonard Lewin Was Approached By A Group Of Ingenious Satirists On The Left To Concoct A Document That Would Pretend To Ratify EveryoneS 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 GovernmentRun 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 LewinS Telling, This Gathering Of The NationS Academic Elite Concluded That Suspending War Would Be Disastrous, Forcing All Sorts Of Bizarre Measures To Compensate.Lewin DidnT Realize It At The Time, But HeD Created A Narrative That Fed The Interests Of Both Ends Of The Political SpectrumBy Promoting The Idea That The Government Uses Centralized Power For Evil.What Fascinates About Phil TinlineS RevelationFilled Recreation Of That Ingenious Hoax Is Seeing How It Explodes Into AmericaS Consciousness, Dominates Media Reports, And Sends Government Officials Scrambling. And Then, How LewinS Fabrication Is Adopted By A Seemingly Endless String Of Extremist Organizations Which View It As Supporting Their Ideology.In This RivetingAnd, At Times, ChillingTale Is An Unsettling Warning About How, In Contemporary Times, A Deception May No Longer Be Considered A Hoax If It Can Be Used To Recruit Followers To A Cause.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47957442953461,"sku":"DADAX1668050501","price":28.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71W-rIUJ9bL.jpg?v=1775554242","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/ghosts-of-iron-mountain-the-hoax-of-the-century-its-enduring-impact-and-what-it-reveals-about-america-today","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}