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Simon & Schuster, April 2006
Trade Paperback, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0743270606
ISBN-13: 9780743270601
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In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice -- and indeed, the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them.
Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting the War on Terror.
With firsthand access to the leading players in the story, Ronson traces the evolution of these bizarre activities over the past three decades and shows how they are alive today within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and in postwar Iraq. Why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners of war with the theme tune to Barney the Purple Dinosaur? Why have 100 debleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces Command Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? How was the U.S. military associated with the mysterious mass suicide of a strange cult from San Diego? The Men Who Stare at Goats answers these and many more questions.
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-- The Boston Globe
-- The Boston Globe
"Ronson sets his book up beautifully. It moves with wry precise agility from crackpot to crackpot in its search for the essence of this early New Age creativity.... "
-- Janet Maslin, The New York Times
-- Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Melbourne Age, October 7, 2011
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CSICOP, November 23, 2009
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The Bookseller, May 22, 2009
...s start a book club on Twitter ! One a week and we all post mini-reviews!' He nominated Jon Ronson's Men Who Stare at Goats as the first book to review. There are now more than 90 pages of tweets on the #wossybookclub thread. Sales of the ...
