Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard - Softcover

Miller, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909269360 ISBN 13: 9781909269361

Verlag: Silvertail Books, 2015

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Páginas: 396 Géneros: 12:WH:Humour 12:BG:Biography: general 12:HRQM:Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects Sinopsis: Bare-Faced Messiah tells the extraordinary story of L. Ron Hubbard, a penniless science-fi ction writer who founded the Church of Scientology, became a millionaire prophet and convinced his adoring followers that he alone could save the world. According to his &lsquo,official , biography, Hubbard was an explorer, engineer, scientist, war hero and philosopher. But in the words of a Californian judge, he was schizophrenic, paranoid and a pathological liar. What is not in dispute is that Hubbard was one of the most bizarre characters of the twentieth century. Bare-Faced Messiah exposes the myths surrounding the fascinating and mysterious founder of the Church of Scientology &ndash, a man of hypnotic charm and limitless imagination &ndash, and provides the defi nitive account of how the notorious organisation was created._,

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'A brilliant exposé of Scientology's conman king' John Sweeney 'Unfolds like an epic and ultimately tragic film' Tony Ortega 'Russell Miller did the groundbreaking work on Hubbard and the Church of Scientology that every future biographer relies upon' Lawrence Wright

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Bare-Faced Messiah tells the extraordinary story of L. Ron Hubbard, a penniless science-fi ction writer who founded the Church of Scientology, became a millionaire prophet and convinced his adoring followers that he alone could save the world.

According to his ‘official’ biography, Hubbard was an explorer, engineer, scientist, war hero and philosopher. But in the words of a Californian judge, he was schizophrenic, paranoid and a pathological liar. What is not in dispute is that Hubbard was one of the most bizarre characters of the twentieth century.

Bare-Faced Messiah exposes the myths surrounding the fascinating and mysterious founder of the Church of Scientology – a man of hypnotic charm and limitless imagination – and provides the defi nitive account of how the notorious organisation was created.

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• Verlag: Silvertail Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1909269360
• ISBN 13: 9781909269361
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 396