Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

by Rick Emerson

"Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy." --Portland Book Review


"An absorbing and unnerving read . . . this book demands to be finished in one sitting." --Booklist

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud.

In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1637740425
• ISBN13: 9781637740422
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Benbella Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Riveting

This book had such a chokehold on me. When I wasn’t reading this book, I was counting the minutes until I could get back to it. I was going to be cutesy and use a direct quote from the book but of course now I can’t find it. If you like twists and turns then this is the book for you. Life is honestly and truly stranger than fiction. I know I rated this five stars but I have to call out how weird it is the author didn’t cite sources after spending 350 pages dragging BS (truer initials have never existed btw) for basically doing the same thing? I trust research was done but it’s imperative to cite your sources, especially when deconstructing someone’s literary career. You already did the work, it should be no problem to prove it. Like, I don't get it, was the point to have your sources be "Just trust me, bro" as some sort of jab at Beatrice Sparks? (Not defending Beatrice, don't get it twisted. I'm just confused about why sources aren't cited at the end of the book.)