Harvard and the Unabomber : the education of an American terrorist

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Harvard and the Unabomber : the education of an American terrorist

by Alston Chase

W. W. Norton, c2003

1st ed

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 On the basis of exhaustive research and much previously unpublished material, Alston Chase presents a radically new interpretation of the infamous Unabomber.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 Universitywhere Kaczynski absorbed the ideas that would eventually surface in his famous Unabomber Manifestoto 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.

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