Going Clear
Lawrence Wright
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
<p>A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the <i>The Looming Tower,</i> the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative ability to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology.<br><br> At the book's center, two men whom Wright brings vividly to life, showing how they have made Scientology what it is today: The darkly brilliant science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, whose restless, expansive mind invented a new religion. And his successor, David Miscavige--tough and driven, with the unenviable task of preserving the church after the death of Hubbard.<br><br> We learn about Scientology's complicated cosmology and special language. We see the ways in which the church pursues...</p>