An excellent new book. His fast-paced account is often entertaining but never loses sight of where it is heading: toward a moment, our own, when conspiracists and crackpots have seized the levers of power ... Both important and unsettling.
Tinline’s book is an astute study of a fiction warped under its own weight ... But he lacks patience for the paranoid style in American politics ... Tinline, who is British, doesn’t quite know what to do about the softer side of America’s conspiracy dabbling—the way these theories express our collective frustration, our yearning for the unknowable, our bumptious camaraderie.
A searing probe ... Equal parts fascinating and disturbing ... Through dogged research, including interviews with Lewis’s children, Tinline astutely examines how belief in the report’s veracity persisted.
