J. Swift
Patron with Honors
Gawker just confirmed that Paul Haggis and Pulitzer Prize winning author Lawrence Wright are collaborating on a book that will discuss DM's abuses and CoS. This is another broadside into DM's Shipwreck Cult!
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In my conversations with Larry Wright, I found him to possess a tremendous combination of an indomitable intellect and great compassion. He is very committed to telling Paul Haggis' story to the world. Larry Wright's personal courage and work ethic as a journalist are reflected in his Pulitzer Prize and his 2006 best-seller The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006).
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ref:http://gawker.com/5725832/the-scientology-expose-weve-been-waiting-forWright is a meticulous and muscular reporter, so the two men collaborating to tell the story of Scientology from the inside will be a very big deal. The book, which doesn't have a publisher yet, will be called The Heretic of Hollywood: Paul Haggis vs.The Church of Scientology and will explore both founder L. Ron Hubbard's life and Haggis' personal investigation into Miscavige's violence, the enslavement of "Sea Org" volunteers, and forced abortions for church workers, according to a catalog from Wright's agent Andrew Wylie [pdf] that was pointed out to us by a tipster. Full text of the catalog copy is below.
Wright has mentioned the project before in interviews, and indicated that it grew out of a New Yorker story that hasn't yet run.
The Scientology Expose We've Been Waiting ForIt will be interesting to see whether Scientology's counterintelligence and disinformation machinery will be up to the challenge of undermining a project like this: Back in the 1970s, the cult actually managed to infiltrate the private life of Paulette Cooper, author of The Scandal of Scientology, with a stooge acting as her best friend in a failed effort to frame her and drive her to suicide. So Wright might want to be careful about making any new friends for the next few years.
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In my conversations with Larry Wright, I found him to possess a tremendous combination of an indomitable intellect and great compassion. He is very committed to telling Paul Haggis' story to the world. Larry Wright's personal courage and work ethic as a journalist are reflected in his Pulitzer Prize and his 2006 best-seller The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006).
ref: http://www.lawrencewright.com/bio.htmlHis history of al-Qaeda, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006) was published to immediate and widespread acclaim, spending eight weeks on The New York Times best seller list and being translated into twenty-five languages. It was nominated for the National Book Award and won the Lionel Gelber Award for nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Award for History, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The NYU School of Journalism recently honored the book as one of the ten best works of journalism in the previous decade.
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