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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this eye-opening portrait of extremist groups--75 percent of which are located in this country--Jon Ronson takes readers inside the hearts and minds of people often summarily dismissed as kooks and crazies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the bestselling author of <i>The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry</i> and <i>So You've Been Publicly Shamed</i>.</b> <p/>A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In <i>Them, </i> journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists to track down the fabled secret room. <p/>As a journalist and a Jew, Ronson was often considered one of Them but he had no idea if their meetings actually took place. Was he just not invited? <i>Them</i> takes us across three continents and into the secret room. Along the way he meets Omar Bakri Mohammed, considered one of the most dangerous men in Great Britain, PR-savvy Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Thom Robb, and the survivors of Ruby Ridge. He is chased by men in dark glasses and unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp. In the forests of northern California he even witnesses CEOs and leading politicians -- like Dick Cheney and George Bush -- undertake a bizarre owl ritual. <p/>Ronson's investigations, by turns creepy and comical, reveal some alarming things about the looking-glass world of us and them. <i>Them</i> is a deep and fascinating look at the lives and minds of extremists. Are the extremists onto something? Or is Jon Ronson becoming one of them?<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Esquire</i> A remarkable book.<br><br><i>The Boston Globe</i> A tremendous and discomfiting achievement.<br><br><i>The Nation</i> I've never read such a delightful book on such a serious and important topic.<br><br><i>The San Diego Union-Tribune</i> It takes a funny man to see the humor in all the conspiracy theories that float hatefully across the land, and Jon Ronson is a funny man. It takes a brave man to chase that humor right into the belly of the beast, and Jon Ronson is a brave man too.<br><br>Jonathan Yardley <i>The Washington Post</i> Unlikely though it certainly will seem to most readers at this difficult hour...Jon Ronson has managed to write a hugely amusing book about the lunatic fringe.<br><br>Ron Rosenbaum <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> Often entertaining, more often disturbing...[Ronson] has gotten closer to these people than any journalist I can think of.<br>

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