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But, beyond their existence in the same timeframe, no one has probed the parallel reality of their not-so-separate universes. "Power, to people like Manson and Nixon, is the only reality, the only absolute," writes Levenda. "Nixon had to proclaim Manson guilty to the press; he had to address the one other man in the country who understood power, and truth, and evil, and murder the way he did." It may make certain readers uncomfortable, this pairing of a president and a pariah. Comfort, however, is not Levenda's intent. It's heavy stuff. Heavier still, because Levenda strides here into a realm where good and evil are often not what they appear. Or, rather, what Americans fantasize they are. Levenda is perhaps, above all, a master of exploring mysterious synchronicities, or at least giving such events a context. To wit, the year 1947 saw the creation of the CIA and the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, not to mention the Roswell crash and the death of Aleister Crowley. In "A Warm Gun," we are awash not in the coincidental but in the subliminal, and the possibility that the mythic battles between demonic and angelic forces are yet being recreated on planet Earth (and even beyond). The author's initial expertise was in the occult realm of Nazi Germany ("Unholy Alliance"), and here he sweeps through post-war events with a rapier, exposing the unctuous underbelly of a national history whose inevitable denouement may now be occurring... "The bugle blows..." James Hillman writes in "A Terrible Love of War." "Wake up, said Plato; we are all in a cave watching shadows on the wall, believing them to be reality." So look down the barrel of Peter Levenda's "A Warm Gun," and pay heed to the dark saga of how we came to our current "reality." ~ From the Foreword by Dick Russell
Table of Contents Foreword by Dick Russell Section Four: All the President's Men Index
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In book two of his trilogy, "Sinister Forces," Peter Levenda walks us through a minefield, dredging up and weaving together considerable material that many would prefer stay buried.
There have been, for example, many books about the decline and fall of Richard Nixon, and no few books exploring the bizarre world of Charles Manson.
