A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Origins of Modern Terrorism

by Alston Chase

Book Overview

This is a radically new interpretation of the life and motives of the infamous Unabomber. Alston Chase's gripping account follows Ted Kaczynski from an unhappy adolescence in Illinois to Harvard, where he was subject not only to the despairing intellectual currents of the Cold War but also to ethically questionable psychological experiments. Kaczynski fled academia to the edge of the wilderness in Montana, but Chase shows us that he was never the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393325563
• ISBN13: 9780393325560
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 437 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"