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The Men Who Stare at Goats - Book by: Jon Ronson - Paperback
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9781439181775
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1439181772
ISBN-13
9781439181775
eBay Product ID (ePID)
128210506
Product Key Features
Book Title
Men Who Stare at Goats
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military Science, Military / United States, Social History, Animals / General, Occultism
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Nature, Body, Mind & Spirit, Technology & Engineering, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Ronson sets his book up beautifully. It moves with wry precise agility from crackpot to crackpot in its search for the essence of this early New Age creativity.... " -- Janet Maslin, The New York Times, "A hilarious and unsettling book.... Ronson comes off as an unusual cross between Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh." -- The Boston Globe
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
355.3/434/0973
Edition Description
Media tie-in
Table Of Content
CONTENTS 1. The General 2. Goat Lab 3. The First Earth Battalion 4. Into the Heart of the Goat 5. Homeland Security 6. Privatization 7. The Purple Dinosaur 8. The Predator 9. The Dark Side 10. A Think Tank 11. A Haunted Hotel 12. The Frequencies 13. Some Illustrations 14. The 1953 House 15. Harold's Club or Bust! 16. The Exit Acknowledgments and Bibliography
Synopsis
Bizarre military history: In 1979, a crack commando unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known laws of physics and accepted military practice, they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and--perhaps most chillingly--kill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battalion, entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back--and they're fighting the War on Terror. An uproarious exploration of American military paranoia: With investigations ranging from the mysterious "Goat Lab," to Uri Geller's covert psychic work with the CIA, to the increasingly bizarre role played by a succession of U.S. presidents, this might just be the funniest, most unsettling book you will ever read--if only because it is all true and is still happening today., Now a major film, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, and Jeff Bridges, this New York Times bestseller is a disturbing and often hilarious look at the U.S. military's long flirtation with the paranormal--and the psy-op soldiers that are still fighting the battle. Bizarre military history: In 1979, a crack commando unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known laws of physics and accepted military practice, they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and--perhaps most chillingly--kill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battalion, entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back--and they're fighting the War on Terror. An uproarious exploration of American military paranoia: With investigations ranging from the mysterious "Goat Lab," to Uri Geller's covert psychic work with the CIA, to the increasingly bizarre role played by a succession of U.S. presidents, this might just be the funniest, most unsettling book you will ever read--if only because it is all true and is still happening today., Now a major film, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, and Jeff Bridges, this New York Times bestseller is a disturbing and often hilarious look at the US military's long flirtation with the paranormal--and the psy-op soldiers that are still fighting the battle. Bizarre military history: In 1979, a crack commando unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known laws of physics and accepted military practice, they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and--perhaps most chillingly--kill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battalion, entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back--and they're fighting the War on Terror. An uproarious exploration of American military paranoia: With investigations ranging from the mysterious "Goat Lab," to Uri Geller's covert psychic work with the CIA, to the increasingly bizarre role played by a succession of US presidents, this might just be the funniest, most unsettling book you will ever read--if only because it is all true and is still happening today.
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