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Going clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief / Lawrence Wright.
- Title
- Going clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief / Lawrence Wright.
- Author
- Wright, Lawrence, 1947-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
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- Description
- xiii, 430 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative skills to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology: its origins in the imagination of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard; its struggles to find acceptance as a legitimate (and legally acknowledged) religion; its vast, secret campaign to infiltrate the U.S. government; its vindictive treatment of critics; its phenomenal wealth; and its dramatic efforts to grow and prevail after the death of Hubbard"--From publisher description.
- Alternative Title
- Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-418) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. I. Scientology. The convert -- Source -- Going overboard -- pt. II. Hollywood. The faith factory -- Dropping the body -- In service to the stars -- The future is ours -- Bohemian rhapsody -- TC and COB -- pt. III. The prison of belief. The investigation -- Tommy -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9780307700667 (hbk.) :
- 0307700666 (hbk.) :
- OCLC
- 818318033
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library