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<DIV>From Norman Mailer's review of Peter Lavenda's new political history of the
USA:</DIV>
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<DIV>"Face-to-face with twenty-five years of research gathered from no less than
forty countries, most writers would have looked to come up with any number of
spy, horror, and suspense novels suggested by this trove of material. Peter
Levenda, however, tackled it head-on. So, he set himself the near-to-impossible
task of pulling together such diverse threads as pop culture, archaeology,
anthropology, poetry, religion, the occult, and a host of government actions
overt and hidden. In return, he has produced the first installment of a thesis
that is by turns compelling, cautious, maddening, and intriguing.<BR><BR>This
book lives with the premise that there is a Satanic undercurrent to American
affairs. Since there is a world of clues and indications to support the thesis,
but very little qualifies as hard evidence, the author is enmeshed in a
labyrinthine task. Given the bewildering enormity of the subject, one can
forgive Sinister Forces its serious faults for in recompense we are offered
astonishing coincidences, improbable but factual interconnections, occasional
exposures of buried government history, outright assassinations and inexplicable
historic conjunctions that scream out for explanation where none can be
provided. Conspiratorialists will drown in new floods of old forgotten material,
rationalists will throw this book across the room, then get around to picking it
up and reading a little further before they throw it down again in a fury at the
uneasy possibility that the Devil could conceivably also be a part of our
ongoing and inexplicable American history. </DIV>
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<DIV>Worse! What if it—as Levenda looks to indicate—it all goes back to the
earliest American inhabitants, back to the mysterious mound-building
Pre-Columbian cultures of Kentucky up through the Salem witch trials on to the
Twentieth Century mind-control experiments, the obfuscations surrounding UFOs,
and Manson, and Sirhan, and November 22 in Dallas? The first of these three
volumes of Sinister Forces is already ten books in one. Depending on one’s
reading inclinations, this is either a disaster or a great bargain."</DIV>
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