Ghosts of Iron Mountain - Tinline, Phil
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"Delve into the labyrinth of America's conspiracy culture with this investigative [work] that unearths the roots of our era's most potent myths. In 1966, amid unrest over the Vietnam War and the alarming growth of the military-industrial complex, little-known writer Leonard Lewin was approached by a group of ... satirists on the Left to concoct a document that would pretend to ratify everyone's fears that the government was deceiving the public. Devoting more than a year to the project, Lewin constructed a fiction ... that a government-run Study Group had been charged with examining the 'cost…mehr

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"Delve into the labyrinth of America's conspiracy culture with this investigative [work] that unearths the roots of our era's most potent myths. In 1966, amid unrest over the Vietnam War and the alarming growth of the military-industrial complex, little-known writer Leonard Lewin was approached by a group of ... satirists on the Left to concoct a document that would pretend to ratify everyone's fears that the government was deceiving the public. Devoting more than a year to the project, Lewin constructed a fiction ... that a government-run Study Group had been charged with examining the 'cost of peace,' setting its first meetings in the very real Iron Mountain nuclear bunker in upstate New York. ... In Lewin's telling, this gathering of the nation's academic elite concluded that suspending war would be disastrous, forcing all sorts of bizarre measures to compensate. ... What fascinates about Phil Tinline's revelation-filled recreation of that ... hoax is seeing how it explodes into America's consciousness, dominates media reports, and sends government officials scrambling. And then, subsequently, how Lewin's fabrication is adopted by a seemingly endless string of extremist organizations which view it as supporting their ideology"
Autorenporträt
Phil Tinline is a freelance writer and documentarian. He is the author of The Death of Consensus, which was chosen as The Times (London)’s Politics Book of the Year. Over the course of twenty years working for the BBC, he has made and presented many acclaimed documentaries about how political history shapes our lives. He has also written for The Times (London), The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph (London), The New Statesman (UK), BBC History Magazine, and Prospect. A graduate of Oxford University where he obtained a degree in English language and literature, he lives in London.
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Astonishing... an account of a brilliantly conceived spoof that has quite unintentionally changed the course of history, feeding a frenzy of conspiratorially minded narratives that have poisoned the electorate and threaten our civic discourse. The spoof would be hilarious if it were not so dangerous.