Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A fascinating inside look of the Church of Sceintology and it's history. I really recommend [b:Bare-Faced Messiah|1171794|Bare-Faced Messiah|Russel Miller|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg|1159548] (my review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/281212354), but this one is much more up to date and current, behind a religio-corporate history of the financial empire and not merely an L. Ron Hubbard biography. This book covers the broken families, psychotic breakdowns, deprivations of freedom and transformation from cult to real estate empire (didn't the Moonies make a similar apotheosis) in the post-Hubbard reign of king Thetan and narcissistic megalomaniac, David Miscavige.
Quite an amazing story of how this half-baked concretion of sci-fi, hypnotism, and Freud was sold world-wide by failed author Hubbard and persists today.
Reitman's book is based on a lot of Church records and ex- and current Scientologics interviews which also adds Scientological lifestories of the current and the disenchanted.
It also really explains the appeal to actors and artists.
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