Bare-faced Messiah - the True Story of L. Ron Hubbard - Hardcover

Russell Miller

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190926914X ISBN 13: 9781909269149

Publisher: Silvertail Books, 2015

Synopsis

According to his official biographer, L Ron Hubbard was an explorer, engineer, scientist, philosopher and war hero. According to a California judge, he was a pathological liar and paranoid schizophrenic. This meticulously researched, grippingly narrated expose tells the extraordinary story of how a penniless science fiction writer founded the Church of Scientology, a cult that attracted adoring followers worldwide and made him a multi-millionaire until, pursued by the FBI, he disappeared without trace.

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'An unsurpassably scathing study of money-mad, power-mad megalomania' SPECTATOR 'A brilliant expose of Scientology's conman king' JOHN SWEENEY, AUTHOR OF THE CHURCH OF FEAR 'Bare-Faced Messiah is not only the most comprehensive ever written about L. Ron Hubbard, it's also the most readable. This story about a brilliant but deeply flawed man who was determined to smash his name into history unfolds like an epic and ultimately tragic film' TONY ORTEGA 'A testament to the gullibility of man in the face of the charlatanry of Scientology' THE TIMES 'Admirably written, well documented and must have entailed a great deal of painstaking research' SUNDAY TIMES 'Hilarious and deeply unsettling...while scathingly critical of Hubbard and his church, Bare-Faced Messiah is, in fact, scrupulously fair' MACLEAN'S 'Russell Miller did the groundbreaking work on Hubbard and the Church of Scientology that every future biographer relies upon' LAWRENCE WRIGHT, AUTHOR OF GOING CLEAR 'Miller does not theorise, nor even very often moralise. The reader must provide his own interjections, laughter and gasps of astonishment' PRIVATE EYE 'Bare-Faced Messiah... remains the best and most comprehensive biography of L. Ron Hubbard' JANET REITMAN, AUTHOR OF INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY: THE STORY OF AMERICA'S MOST SECRET RELIGION 'Absorbing...well documented and graphically told' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 'Entertaining reading that packs a mighty punch' BRISBANE SUNDAY MAIL 'Russell Miller is one of the great biographers of the generation, and his book remains the only full biography of Hubbard' JON ATACK, AUTHOR OF A PIECE OF BLUE SKY 'Miller is to be congratulated for his meticulous research in disentangling fact from fiction, reality from myth in Hubbard's remarkable and ultimately tragic life' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'It's the big talent taking on little detail that helps make Russell Miller so good' NEW SOCIETY 'Russell Miller tells the whole preposterous saga of this frightful mixture of Baron Munchausen and Madam Blavatsky with a wry and dogged clarity' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Edition details

• Publisher: Silvertail Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190926914X
• ISBN 13: 9781909269149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400