Sinister Forces

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"Satan is Boring"--Sonic Youth

On 6/29/05, snappydresser <snappydresser at rogers.com> wrote:
> From Norman Mailer's review of Peter Lavenda's new political history of the
> USA:
>  
> "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.
> 
> 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. 
>  
> 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."
>  
> http://sinisterforces.info/
>  
> YOPJ