ISBN: 9780393020021

From brilliant scholar to serial killer: was Ted Kaczynski mad? Or is he a mirror to our times? On The Basis of Exhaustive Research and much previously unpublished material, Alston Chase … Mehr…

From brilliant scholar to serial killer: was Ted Kaczynski mad? Or is he a mirror to our times? On The Basis of Exhaustive Research and much previously unpublished material, Alston Chase presents a radically new interpretation of the infamous Unabomber. He projects Kaczynski's life against the backdrop of the cold war, when the prospect of nuclear conflict generated on college campuses a fear of technology and a culture of despair. On those same campuses, federal agencies enlisted psycholgists in a search for thenologies of mind control and encouraged ethically questionable experiments on unwitting students. Chase's gripping account follows Kaczaynski from an unhappy adolescence in Illinois to Harvard University--where Kaczynski absorbed the ides that would eventually surface in his famous Unabomber Manifesto--to graduate school, and finally to the edge of the wilderness in Montana, where he put his unthinkable plans into action. This is a cautionary tale about modern evil, and the conditions that provoked Kaczynski's alienation remain in place. Paradoxically, they may be about to get worse, as the war on terrorism replaces the cold war in American policy and imagination. Media > Book, [PU: W. W. Norton]<

ISBN: 9780393020021

From brilliant scholar to serial killer: was Ted Kaczynski mad? Or is he a mirror to our times? On The Basis of Exhaustive Research and much previously unpublished material, Alston Chase … Mehr…

From brilliant scholar to serial killer: was Ted Kaczynski mad? Or is he a mirror to our times? On The Basis of Exhaustive Research and much previously unpublished material, Alston Chase presents a radically new interpretation of the infamous Unabomber. He projects Kaczynski's life against the backdrop of the cold war, when the prospect of nuclear conflict generated on college campuses a fear of technology and a culture of despair. On those same campuses, federal agencies enlisted psycholgists in a search for thenologies of mind control and encouraged ethically questionable experiments on unwitting students. Chase's gripping account follows Kaczaynski from an unhappy adolescence in Illinois to Harvard University--where Kaczynski absorbed the ides that would eventually surface in his famous Unabomber Manifesto--to graduate school, and finally to the edge of the wilderness in Montana, where he put his unthinkable plans into action. This is a cautionary tale about modern evil, and the conditions that provoked Kaczynski's alienation remain in place. Paradoxically, they may be about to get worse, as the war on terrorism replaces the cold war in American policy and imagination. Media >, [PU: W. W. Norton]<

2003, ISBN: 9780393020021

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WW Norton & Co, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: First Edition First Printing, 352 Seiten, Publiziert: 2003-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.69 kg, Verkaufsrang: 4269814, Vereinigte Staaten, Geschichte, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Kategorien, Bücher, Militär, Herausragende Persönlichkeiten, Spionage, Reale Kriminalfälle, Kriminalität, Gesellschaft, Politik & Geschichte, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, WW Norton & Co, 2003<