The Call of the Weird: Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner

by Louis Theroux

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No, it doesn't get any weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, who claims to have killed ten aliens. Or April, the Neo-Nazi bringing up her twin daughters Lamb and Lynx (A.K.A. Prussian Blue, a white-power folk group for kids) and her youngest daughter, Dresden. For a decade, Louis Theroux has been making acclaimed television programs about offbeat characters on the fringes of U.S. society. Now he revisits the people who have intrigued him the most to try to discover what motivates them-and why they hold their bizarre beliefs. Reflecting on these assorted dreamers, schemers, and outlaws, Theroux entertainingly and unforgettably creates "a moving, funny, and frightening expose of America and its often elusive dream" (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC).
  • ISBN10 0786731893
  • ISBN13 9780786731893
  • Publish Date 29 April 2009 (first published 7 October 2005)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
  • Imprint Da Capo Press Inc
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 320
  • Language English