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Going Clear Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

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ISBN-10: 0307700666

ISBN-13: 9780307700667

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lawrence Wright

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A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of theThe Looming Tower,the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative ability to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology.At the book’s center, two men whom Wright brings vividly to life, showing how they have made Scientology what it is today: The darkly brilliant science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, whose restless, expansive mind invented a…    
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Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/17/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize winning author, graduated from Tulane University and spent two years teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Wright is the author of the Books Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief (2013), Pulitzer Prize winning The Looming Tower : Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006), Noriega: God's Favorite (2000), Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are (1999), Remembering Satan (1994), Saints & Sinners (1993), In the New World: Growing Up in America, 1964-1984 (1987), and City Children, Country Summer: A…    

Introduction
Scientology
The Convert
Source
Going Overboard
Hollywood
The Faith Factory
Dropping the Body
In Service to the Stars
The Future Is Ours
Bohemian Rhapsody
TC and COB
The Prison of Belief
The Investigation
Tommy
Epilogue
Acknowledgments and a Note on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index