Harvard And The Unabomber: The Education Of An American Terrorist

From brilliant scholar to serial killer: was Ted Kaczynski mad? Or is he a mirror to our times? On the basis of exhaustive research and much previously unpublished material, Chase presents a radically new interpretation of the infamous Unabomber.

This book follows Kaczynski from an unhappy adolescence in Illinois to Harvard University-where Kaczynski absorbed the ideas that would eventually surface in his famous Unabomber Manifesto-to graduate school, and finally to the edge of the wilderness in Montana, where he put his unthinkable plans into action. This is a cautionary tale about modern evil, and the conditions that provoked Kaczynski’s alienation remain in place.