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Harvard and the Unabomber
The Education of an American Terrorist
by Alston Chase
ISBN: 0393020029
ISBN-13: 9780393020021
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
This investigation-with-a-thesis explores the possible connections between Tad Kaczynski's experiences at Harvard during the Cold War and his later terrorist acts as the Unabomber. It includes information about Kaczynski's boyhood as well as his experiences as a subject in an experimental "mind control" research program which may have been federally funded. Author Chase sifts through a prodigious amount of material from that place and time, including private writings, course-related lists, and research.
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"HARVARD AND THE UNABOMBER is the kind of book that tells you plenty but drives you nuts....There is more here, a prurient surfeit, than we actually need to know about the Unabomber, but at least he turns out to be more interesting than his manifesto was." -- John Leonard
-- Harper\'s
"Chase's book is very good, though idiosyncratic....The book combines memoir and intellectual history with a riveting portrayal of the dark temptations of the academy." -- Mark Greif
-- Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published date: 2003
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.7 pounds
Pages: 352
Publisher's Notes
An interpretation of the Unabomber case projects Ted Kaczynski's life against a backdrop of the cold war, emerging from an unhappy adolescence to attend Harvard University, where he first adopted the ideas that would lead to his violent behavior.
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Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist
Chase, Alston
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2003 Culls much previously unpublished material to analyze Unabomber Ted Kaczynski's life against the backdrop of the Cold War, beginning with his unhappy adolescence in Illinois to his years @ Harvard University , where his fanatical environmental attitudes were nurtured in the climate of a general "fear of technology & culture of despair'' in the face of what was considered to be imminent nuclear war. The creation of his Unabomber Manifesto & his journey from graduate school to the wilds of Montana & chilling career as a mail bomber are described in depth. This is the Advanced Reading Copy preceding the first edition hardcover. Brand New; no marks or writing! ALL ORDERS PROCESSED BEFORE NOON SHIP IMMEDIATELY THAT DAY; ELSE NEXT DAY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYS).. Advance Reading Copy. Trade Paper. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist
Alston Chase
New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Book looks unread and is near-flawless--has a minor wave to the lower part of a page. Dj is near-flawless--has just a whisper of shelfwear to the spine top (just a bit of a wrinkle.). First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Near Fine/VG++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Non Ficition. ( more information)
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Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist
Chase, Alston
good, good W. W. Norton & Company New York c2003 First First 25 cm, 432, illus., references, chronology, index, some ink marks in margins The author projects Ted Kaczynski's life against the sinister background of the Cold War, when the prospect of nuclear conflict generated a fear of technology and a culture of despair on American college campuses. ( more information)
Offered by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. (United States)
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Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist
Chase, Alston
good, good W. W. Norton & Company New York c2003 First First 25 cm, 432, illus., references, chronology, index, small piece missing in front DJ. Signed by the author. The author projects Ted Kaczynski's life against the sinister background of the Cold War, when the prospect of nuclear conflict generated a fear of technology and a culture of despair on American college campuses. ( more information)
Offered by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. (United States)
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Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist (Qty: 3)
Alston Chase
NORMAL PRODUCTIONS. Brand new. From brilliant scholar to serial killer: was Ted Kaczynski mad? Or is he a mirror to our times? On the basis of exhaustive research and much previously unpublished material, Alston Chase presents a radically new interpretation of the infamous Unabomber. He projects Kaczynski's life against the backdrop of the cold war, when the prospect of nuclear conflict generated on college campuses a fear of technology and a culture of despair. On those same campuses, federal agencies enlisted psychologists in a search for technologies of mind control and encouraged ethically questionable experiments on unwitting students. Chase's gripping account follows Kaczynski from an unhappy adolescence in Illinois to Harvard University where Kaczynski absorbed the ideas that would eventually surface in his famous Unabomber Manifesto to graduate school, and finally to the edge of the wilderness in Montana, where he put his unthinkable plans into action. This is a cautionary tale about modern evil, and the conditions that provoked Kaczynski's alienation remain in place. Paradoxically, they may be about to get worse, as the war on terrorism replaces the cold war in American policy and imagination. 16 pages of b/w photographs. ( more information)
Offered by A Green Hippo (United Kingdom)
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