Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness by Brown, Brian
Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness by Brown, Brian

Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness

From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked...
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Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness by Brown, Brian

Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness

$422.87
Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness by Brown, Brian

Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness

$422.87
Author: Brian Brown
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War.

In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities, and best-kept secrets of the Cold War, during which the United States fought an enemy of its own making for over forty years -- and nearly scared itself to death in the process. The nation chose to fear a chimera, a rotting communist empire that couldn't even feed itself, only for it to be revealed that what lay behind the Iron Curtain was only a sad Potemkin village.

In fact, one of the greatest threats to our national security may have been our closest ally. The most effective spy cell the Soviets ever had was made up of aristocratic Englishmen schooled at Cambridge. Establishing a communist peril but lacking proof, J. Edgar Hoover became our Big Brother, and Joseph McCarthy went hunting for witches. Richard Nixon stepped into the spotlight as an opportunistic, ruthless Cold Warrior; his criminal cover-up during a dark presidency was exposed by a Deep Throat in a parking garage.

Someone Is Out to Get Us is the true and complete account of a long-misunderstood period of history during which lies, conspiracies, and paranoia led Americans into a state of madness and misunderstanding, too distracted by fictions to realize that the real enemy was looking back at them in the mirror the whole time.

Author: Brian Brown
Publisher: Twelve
Published: 11/05/2019
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781538728031


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019
Booklist 10/01/2019 pg. 12
Publishers Weekly 10/21/2019
Library Journal 02/28/2020 pg. 1

About the Author
Brian T. Brown is the author of Ring Force (Rodale, 2012) and TV: A Novel(Crown, 2001). He is also a journalist, a fifteen-time Emmy winner, and the cowriter and director of The Last Gold, a 2016 feature-length documentary. His work has appeared on CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, PBS, TBS, ESPN, NBCSN, HBO, and the Discovery Channel. As a writer and producer for twelve Olympic broadcasts, he has been attached to some of the most-watched shows in American TV history. Since 2017, he has served as an adjunct professor at Fordham University. Brown's professional career began in newspapers, at the New York Times and the San Diego Union.
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