{"product_id":"ghosts-of-iron-mountain-the-hoax-of-the-century-its-enduring-impact-and-what-it-reveals-about-america-today-paperback","title":"Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals about America Today - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhil Tinline\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKai Bird\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Spellbinding.\" --Rick Perlstein\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003e\"A clever, fast-paced read of dazzling originality.\" --William I. Hitchcock\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An excellent new book, both important and unsettling\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eGhosts of Iron\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMountain \u003c\/i\u003eunravels the astounding origins and far-reaching impacts of a monumental late 1960s hoax, perpetrated by cultural icons including Victor Navasky and E.L. Doctorow--a must-read for anyone curious about the surprising connections between John F. Kennedy, Oliver Stone, Timothy McVeigh, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExplore the intricate web of America's conspiracy culture with this investigative masterpiece that unearths the roots of our era's most potent myths. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 ingenious 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 (passed off as the honest truth) 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 (which lent the resulting book, \u003ci\u003eReport from Iron Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, its name). In Lewin's telling, this gathering of the nation's academic elite concluded that suspending war would be \u003ci\u003edisastrous\u003c\/i\u003e, forcing all sorts of bizarre measures to compensate.\u003cbr\u003e Lewin didn't realize it at the time, but he'd created a narrative that fed the interests of both ends of the political spectrum--by promoting the idea that the government uses centralized power for evil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat fascinates about Phil Tinline's revelation-filled recreation of that ingenious hoax is seeing how it explodes into America's consciousness, dominates media reports, and sends government officials scrambling. And then, how Lewin's fabrication is adopted by a seemingly endless string of extremist organizations which view it as supporting their ideology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this riveting--and, at times, chilling--tale is an unsettling warning about how, in contemporary times, a deception may no longer be considered a hoax if it can be used to recruit followers to a cause.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhil Tinline is a freelance writer and documentarian. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Consensus\u003c\/i\u003e, which was chosen as \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London), \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e(London), \u003ci\u003eThe New\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStatesman \u003c\/i\u003e(UK), \u003ci\u003eBBC History Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eProspect. \u003c\/i\u003eA graduate of Oxford University where he obtained a degree in English language and literature, he lives in London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKai Bird is an acclaimed biographer and journalist. With Martin J. Sherwin, he won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer\u003c\/i\u003e, which was the inspiration for Christopher Nolan's Academy Award-winning Best Picture, \u003ci\u003eOppenheimer\u003c\/i\u003e. Bird is Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for History and is the recipient of numerous fellowships. His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. He is an elected member of the prestigious Society of American Historians.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52005703680301,"sku":"9781668050507","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/gouvv5h7Jf9781668050507.webp?v=1776779246","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/ghosts-of-iron-mountain-the-hoax-of-the-century-its-enduring-impact-and-what-it-reveals-about-america-today-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}