The Believer - Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack
The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened.\n\nNothing in Mack\u2019s four decades of psychiatry had prepared him for the otherworldly accounts of a cross section of humanity including young children who reported being taken against their wills by alien beings. Over the course of his career his interest in alien abduction grew from curiosity to wonder, ultimately developing into a limitless, unwavering passion.\n\n\nAuthor Ralph Blumenthal, a Distinguished Lecturer at Baruch College of the City University of New York, was an award-winning reporter for\xa0The\xa0New York Times\xa0from 1964 to 2009, and has written and co-authored seven books on organized crime and cultural history. He co-authored the recent series of groundbreaking Times articles on the secret Pentagon program to investigate UFOs. He led the\xa0Times\xa0metro team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the 1993 truck-bombing of the World Trade Center. In 2001, Blumenthal was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to research the progressive career and penal reforms of Warden Lewis E. Lawes, \u201cthe man who made Sing Sing sing.\u201d The book on Warden Lawes, \u201cMiracle at Sing Sing,\u201d was published by St. Martin\u2019s in June, 2004. His most recent book is \u201cThe Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack,\u201d published by High Road Books of the University of New Mexico Press.