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THEM: Adventures with Extremists

Price: £6.00
ISBN 13: 
978-0-330-37546-7
Number of pages: 
328
First published: 
2001
This edition: 
2001
Blurb: 

Is there really a secret room from which a tiny elite rules the world, and if so, can it be found? Them: Adventures with Extemists is a romp into the heart of darkness involving twelve-foot lizard-men, PR-savvy Ku Klux Klansmen, Ian Paisley, Hollywood limousines, kidnapped sex slaves, David Icke, and Nicolae Ceausescu's shoes. While Jon Ronson attempts to locate the secret room, he is chased by men in dark glasses, unmasked as a Jew at a Jihad training camp, and witness CEOs and leading politicians undertake a bizarre owl ritual in the forests of northern California. He also learns some alarming things about the looking-glass world of them and us. Are the extremists right? Or has he become one of Them?

Contents: 

Preface and acknowledgements

  1. A Semi-Detached Ayatollah
  2. Running Through Cornfields
  3. The Secret Rulers Of The World
  4. Bilderberg Sets A Trap!
  5. The Middle Men In New York
  6. There Are Lizards And There Are Lizards
  7. The Klansman Who Won't Use The N-Word
  8. Hollywood
  9. Living A Diamond Life In A Rocky World
10. Dr Paisley, I Presume
11. Ceausescu's Shoes
12. The Way Things Are Done
13. The Clearing In The Forest

Biographical note(s): 

Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of two bestsellers, Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare At Goats, and two collections, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More Tales of Everday Craziness. He lives in London.

Quotes about: 

'Ronson instinctively senses that there is something sublimely funny about insane views held in humdrum surroundings . . . It is part of Ronson's brilliance that he is able to take complication and contradiction on board without ever losing site of the joke . . . Ronson is particularly deft at entering into the minds of the paranoid, and seeing how paranoia feeds off itself' -- Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

'There is something chillingly endearing about the strange identity parade of fanatics, conspiracy theorists and the undeniably unhinged that peoples the pages of Ronson's Them . . . An often hilarious account that does to world domination what Bill Bryson has done so exhaustively to travel' -- Irish Independent

'A funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world' -- Louis Theroux, Guardian

'Ronson is a tenacious, often courageous reporter, whose keen sense of humour never dtracts from the integrity of his journalism' -- Sunday Times

'Very entertaining and very frightening' -- Q magazine