Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right and Built an American Kingdom - Hardcover

Gorenfeld, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0979482232 ISBN 13: 9780979482236

Verlag: Polipoint Pr, 2008

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What does it say about American politics when a famous 1970s cult leader publishes a Washington newspaper, dresses up in the U.S. Senate offices like King George III, and no one in D.C. seems to care? One night in 2004, at one of Washington’s most outrageous dinner parties, members of Congress bought a shining crown and robes to a billionaire mystery man who calls himself the True Father: the Reverend Moon, sushi mogul, conservative philanthropist, and publisher of the right-wing Washington Times. After Salon.com journalist John Gorenfeld broke the story of Moon’s  coronation, the New York Times compared the scandal to an act of the Roman emperor Caligula.

 

Now, in a witty work of investigative journalism, Gorenfeld explores the rest of the saga--the fascinating, absurd and politically-embarrassing story of U.S. politicians who jet-set with Moon. A cultural icon of the 1970s, Moon was once associated with mass weddings and parents who hired deprogrammers to seize their children from him. But as Gorenfeld discovers in telling the stories of people caught up in his world, Moon has long been the best-kept secret of the Right--despite naming himself Messiah and making megalomaniacal speeches better suited to Marvel Comics than Politico. Join the author on an arresting journey into 40 years of political decline, told through the saga of Moon and his shameless relationships with an all-star cast of GOP celebrities, ranging from Richard Nixon to George H.W. Bush, and from Jerry Falwell to Pat Boone.

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John Gorenfeld has written for the Guardian, Salon.com, the American Prospect, Radar, National Public Radio, and Mother Jones about everything from fugitive dot.com criminals to North Korean monster movies. A former newspaper crime reporter, he made international headlines when he exposed the Capitol Hill party for Moon. “Pray for our detractors,” the head of Moon’s American church has said, “especially John Gorenfeld.”

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"A mind-altering expose of the cult within the cult, the Moon empire, and its astonishing influence inside Washington, the Republican Party, and the vast right-wing conspiracy."
-- Sidney Blumenthal, How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime

“Bad Moon Rising is stunningly good. Stylish, exquisitely researched, and morally courageous, it reveals corruption to a depth and breadth unimagined by mere novelists.”
-- Rick Perlstein, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“Bad Moon Rising is a riveting investigation into how a cult leader has guilefully infiltrated and exploited the very heart of our democracy. John Gorenfeld lays bare the real story no one else has dared to tell.”
-- Sarah Posner, author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters

“Most of the press has treated Sun Myung Moon as an entertaining eccentric, overlooking the consequences of his widening reach into the corridors of power in the United States. John Gorenfeld has produced a book that explains—cogently and persuasively—why we need to seriously consider the Rev. Moon’s broadening influence and its implications.”
-- Dennis B. Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“A creepy kleptocratic tale of perverse messianic delusion and amoral Washington elitists that would be utterly unbelievable if not for the fact that it’s all horrifyingly, ridiculously true.”
-- Ken Layne, Wonkette

"The kind of fierce, uncompromising journalism that always matters in a world of ruthless phonies."
-- Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polipoint Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0979482232
• ISBN 13: 9780979482236
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 329
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