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""A clever, fast-paced read of dazzling originality...Tinline shows why Americans are so vulnerable to conspiracy theories and sinister hoaxes."" -- ""William I. Hitchcock, New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Eisenhower"" ""A gripping, beautifully written, real-life historical thriller."" -- ""Brian Klaas, author of Fluke"" ""Deeply reported and brilliantly told."" -- ""Kurt Andersen, cofounder of Spy magazine and New York Times bestselling author"" ""Perspective shifting...a story that subverts expectations of a perfectly polarized leftwing and rightwing mindset in the US."" -- ""Whitney Phillips, coauthor of The Shadow Gospel""

""[How] a zany '60s leftist hoax became a progenitor of Trumpism....[This] account of a jest gone terribly wrong makes for fascinating--and eye-opening--reading."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""A rich survey of how we got to the point where practically every event or phenomenon is instantly decried as a 'false flag.'"" -- ""New York Post"" ""An astute study of a fiction warped under its own weight."" -- ""Harper's Magazine"" ""Tinline's fast-paced account is often entertaining but never loses sight of where it is heading: toward a moment, our own, when conspiracists and crackpots have seized the levers of power....Both important and unsettling."" -- ""New York Times""

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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. 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. Kai Bird is the coauthor, with Martin J. Sherwin, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. His other books include The Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment and The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms. Bird's many honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, and the Rockefeller Foundation. A contributing editor for the Nation, he lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, with his wife and son.

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