Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness Audiobook (Free)

From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, writer Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked background of the Chilly War.

In Someone HAS GONE OUT to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities, and best-kept secrets of the Chilly War, during which america fought an foe of its making for over forty years — and almost frightened itself to loss of life along the way. The nation chose to dread a chimera, a rotting communist empire that couldn’t even give food to itself, about Someone HAS GONE OUT to Get Us: A NOT Short History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness only for it to be uncovered that what place behind the Iron Curtain was just a unfortunate Potemkin village.

In fact, one of the biggest threats to your national security might have been our closest ally. The very best spy cell the Soviets ever endured was made up of aristocratic Englishmen schooled at Cambridge. Creating a communist peril but missing evidence, J. Edgar Hoover became our YOUR GOVERNMENT, and Joseph McCarthy proceeded to go hunting for witches. Richard Nixon stepped in to the limelight as an opportunistic, ruthless Chilly Warrior; his criminal cover-up during a dark presidency was subjected with a Deep Throat inside a parking garage.

Someone HAS GONE OUT to Get Us is the true and complete account of the long-misunderstood period of history during which lays, conspiracies, and paranoia led Americans into a condition of madness and misunderstanding, too distracted by fictions to realize that the true enemy was looking back at them in the reflection the whole period.