Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

Book Synopsis: HOW DID AN OBSCURE SCIENCE FICTION WRITER BECOME ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST NOTORIOUS RELIGIOUS LEADERS?'An unsurpassably scathing study of money-mad, power-mad megalomania. I recommend the book unreservedly' Spectator‘A brilliant exposé of Scientology’s conman king’ John Sweeney'Jaw-dropping… Thoroughly researched and simply amazing' Kirkus Reviews

***Bare-Faced Messiah tells the extraordinary story of L. Ron Hubbard, a penniless science-fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology, became a millionaire prophet and convinced his adoring followers that he alone could save the world.

According to his ‘official’ biography, Hubbard was an explorer, engineer, scientist, war hero and philosopher. But in the words of a Californian judge, he was schizophrenic, paranoid and a pathological liar. What is not in dispute is that Hubbard was one of the most bizarre characters of the twentieth century.

Bare-Faced Messiah exposes the myths surrounding the fascinating and mysterious founder of the Church of Scientology – a man of hypnotic charm and limitless imagination – and provides the definitive account of how the notorious organisation was created.

***'One of the most bizarre tales of the 20th century, or any other century for that matter' The Irish Press‘Unfolds like an epic and ultimately tragic film’ Tony Ortega'Russell Miller tells the whole preposterous saga of this frightful mixture of Baron Munchhausen and Madame Blavatsky with a wry and dogged clarity' Sunday Telegraph***

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