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New Age Grifter
The True Story of Gabriel of Urantia and His Cosmic Family

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Paperback, 272 pages
Published
United States, 17 June 2021
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Author Flatley hosts a popular podcast and newsletter, “Failed State Update”.
Feral House is very connected to both followers of conspiracy and anti-conspiracy writing and has had great success in this area.
Flatley will be appearing on numerous podcasts.
Promotion will have a strong social media component.
Egalleys (via Edelweiss) available 6 months in advance of publication.


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Product Description

Author Flatley hosts a popular podcast and newsletter, “Failed State Update”.
Feral House is very connected to both followers of conspiracy and anti-conspiracy writing and has had great success in this area.
Flatley will be appearing on numerous podcasts.
Promotion will have a strong social media component.
Egalleys (via Edelweiss) available 6 months in advance of publication.

Product Details
EAN
9781627311106
ISBN
1627311106
Other Information
20 Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensions
22.6 x 15 x 1.8 centimeters (0.34 kg)

About the Author

Joseph L. Flatley is an author and investigative journalist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania whose "beat" is conspiracy theories and fringe subcultures. In his books and articles, he has chronicled internet con artists, doomsday preppers, Satanic Panic pseudo-therapists, and Julian Assange, to name a few. His stories have appeared in The Verge, The Outline, Postindustrial, and CounterPunch.

Reviews

New Age Grifter moves along at a brisk clip, providing a clear background for understanding a controversial guru within the context of New Age religious movements. Joseph Flatley's account of the prophet from Pittsburgh is provocative, informative, and engaging.
Frequently provocative, New Age Grifter is always informative and entertaining. Yet Joseph Flatley also exposes the dangers that exist within abusive new religions. His book illuminates the controversies that surround a controversial New Age guru, all in an engaging style." - Rebecca Moore, Ph.D., Co-Director, The Jonestown Institute

"Part detective/part bemused spectator, Joseph L. Flatley deftly follows the trail of an aging hippie who somewhere along the line got dosed with a heavy hit of the Urantia Book and ultimately became known to the world (or at least to some residents of Tucson) as Gabriel, a wannabe rock star-turned-new age avatar and father figure to the flock of fawning supplicants who heeded his crazed clarion call." - Adam Gorightly, author of Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius

"What Joseph L. Flatley has done here with New Age Grifter is to not only paint the portrait of a moment in time, imbue it with life and the appropriate madness and animate the characters, but to dig deep into where power, spirituality, and greed intersect and transform into something different, something terrifying." - Jared Yates Sexton, political analyst and author of American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People.

"With New Age Grifter, Joseph L. Flatley has produced a work of immersion anthropology worth scaling the compound walls for. But he did it the hard way, by talking his way past the desert gates into the center of a mystery more comic than cosmic. Give yourself a break from the nostalgia tours around Manson and Koresh and take this contemporary trip to the New Age Arizona community built around Gabriel of Urantia, aka TaliasVan, the most successful and least likely guru to ever emerge from under the industrial skylines of Flatley's hometown of Pittsburgh." - Alexander Zaitchik, journalist and author of The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump's America

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