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[[File:LetsSellBlueSky.jpg|thumb|right|''A Piece of Blue Sky'' by Jon Atack, 2nd edition.]] |
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| ⚫ | '''A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed'''. Atack exposes Hubbard's bizarre imagination and behavior, tracing the creation of Scientology in the years following World War II to perhaps its final schism following Hubbard's death in 1986. A shocking book that reveals all: the abuses, falsehoods, paranoia, and greed of Hubbard and his pseudo-military Scientologist henchmen. |
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| caption = Cover, 2nd edition. |
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| author = Jon Atack |
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| country = United States |
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| language = English |
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| subject = [[:Category:Scientology|Scientology]] |
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| publisher = [[:Category:Lyle Stuart|Lyle Stuart]] Books, Carol Publishing Group |
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| release_date = August 19, 1990 |
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| media_type = Print ([[Wikipedia:Hardcover|Hardcover]]) |
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| pages = 448 |
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| isbn = 0-8184-0499-X |
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| ⚫ | '''A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed''', by [[:Category:Jon Atack|Jon Atack]]. Atack exposes Hubbard's bizarre imagination and behavior, tracing the creation of Scientology in the years following World War II to perhaps its final schism following Hubbard's death in 1986. A shocking book that reveals all: the abuses, falsehoods, paranoia, and greed of Hubbard and his pseudo-military Scientologist henchmen. |
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==Details== |
==Details== |
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===1st edition=== |
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*Hardcover: 428 pages |
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*Publisher: Lyle Stuart; First edition (January 29, 1990) |
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*Language: English |
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*ISBN-10: 081840499X |
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*ISBN-13: 978-0818404993 |
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===2nd edition=== |
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*Paperback: 472 pages |
*Paperback: 472 pages |
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*Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2 edition (February 5, 2013) |
*Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2 edition (February 5, 2013) |
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*ISBN-13: 978-1482023039 |
*ISBN-13: 978-1482023039 |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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*{{Wikipedia-inline|A Piece of Blue Sky}} |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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*[https://www.createspace.com/4138771 Let's sell these people A Piece of Blue Sky. Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology. Jon Atack, Edition: 2], CreateSpace. |
*[https://www.createspace.com/4138771 Let's sell these people A Piece of Blue Sky. Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology. Jon Atack, Edition: 2], CreateSpace. |
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Latest revision as of 19:34, 16 September 2017
| A Piece of Blue Sky | |
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 Cover, 2nd edition. | |
| Author(s) | Jon Atack |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Scientology |
| Publisher | Lyle Stuart Books, Carol Publishing Group |
| Publication date | August 19, 1990 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 448 |
| ISBN | 0-8184-0499-X |
A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed, by Jon Atack. Atack exposes Hubbard's bizarre imagination and behavior, tracing the creation of Scientology in the years following World War II to perhaps its final schism following Hubbard's death in 1986. A shocking book that reveals all: the abuses, falsehoods, paranoia, and greed of Hubbard and his pseudo-military Scientologist henchmen.
Details
1st edition
- Hardcover: 428 pages
- Publisher: Lyle Stuart; First edition (January 29, 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 081840499X
- ISBN-13: 978-0818404993
2nd edition
- Paperback: 472 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2 edition (February 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1482023032
- ISBN-13: 978-1482023039
See also
A Piece of Blue Sky article from Wikipedia
External links
Pages in category "A Piece of Blue Sky"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 205 total.
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- A Church's Lethal Contract - 2003-12-01
- Blog: A Cult by any other name... - 2013-02-10
- A Hubbard Legacy: Scientology's Punitive Policies - 1998-01-15
- A rare gem from 1968: When the Daily Mail tracked down L. Ron Hubbard in Tunisia - 2016-08-17
- African Queen: The Man L. Ron Hubbard Thought He Was - 2013-04-20
- After a landmark court case, Scientology watchers should be celebrating, not sniping - 2017-11-25
- Amassing the real history of Scientology has been a long and dramatic relay race - 2016-10-29
- Amazon Drops Controversial Book - 1999-05-20
- Amazon reverses decision on book ban - 1999-05-21
- Amazon to restore Scientology title - 1999-05-20
- Amazon.Com To Restore Book Critical Of Scientology - 1999-05-22
- An enduring myth in Scientology - that L. Ron Hubbard actually read your letters - 2016-11-05
- An L. Ron Hubbard island fantasy: The Scientology daydream you haven't heard - 2015-02-07
- Blog: Atack on Roux on Scientology - 2014-07-02
- Blog: Atack Reloaded - 2012-07-01
- Blog: Atack Unchained - 2013-01-28
- Atack: Contradictions in L. Ron Hubbard's "tech" only increase Scientology discipline - 2016-05-21
- Atack: Scientology advocates serenity, so why are so many Scientologists angry jerks? - 2016-10-01
- Atack: The forgotten history of disproving Scientology's status as a "religion" - 2016-10-08
- Atack: What I meant when I said Scientologists suffer from arrogance when they leave - 2016-01-16
- Atack: Which of Scientology's thought-stopping clichés has stayed with you the longest? - 2016-07-09
- Atack: Why those who try to save Scientology from itself are doomed to failure - 2016-08-20
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- Best Account of Life in Scientology? Jon Atack Makes the Case for Counterfeit Dreams - 2013-07-06
- Bill Franks, 1946-2018, appointed by Hubbard to 'reform' Scientology after Snow White scandal - 2018-12-20
- Blogging Dianetics, Part 5: Your Mind is a 1950s Computer - 2013-02-01
- Blood Brother Ron: Starting Out Life on the Wrong Blackfoot - 2013-03-23
- Blood Relation, Blood Ritual: A Hubbard Family Occult Mystery - 2013-09-28
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- FEAR: Jon Atack on Scientology's Essential Ingredient - 2013-09-21
- Fervor: what scientists can learn from Scientology-watching - 2020-06-06
- Finally, a (mostly) full and accurate transcript from one of Scientology's darkest days - 2021-11-05
- From Jon Atack's 'Blue Sky': Reorganizing Scientology as L. Ron Hubbard's life waned - 2018-08-18
- Blog: From the Archives I: 1972 - 2015-02-21
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- Blog: Hassan on 'A Piece of Blue Sky' - 2013-02-08
- Blog: Headleys' supporters rally round - 2012-09-07
- High Court Lets Scientology Copyright Suit Die - 1990-10-15
- Holy Xenu, even we didn't expect Scientology to be this big in Danny Masterson's hearing - 2021-05-22
- How Does Scientology's Cosmology Really Work? Historian Jon Atack Has a Theory - 2013-08-19
- How Marc and Claire Headley's Scientology lawsuit is being used by the NXIVM defense - 2018-12-29
- How much do the Don Rogers letters shake up early Dianetics history? Two experts weigh in. - 2018-05-10
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- Blog: Janet Reitman's 'Inside Scientology' - 2011-07-03
- Janis Grady's new book on life in Scientology: Jon Atack's take, and an excerpt - 2017-07-22
- Jenna Miscavige Hill Continues Her Media Blitz; More Scientology News in Thursday Roundup - 2013-02-07
- John Atack: Scientology's 'past lives' don't pass the giggle test - 2015-10-25
- Jon Atack and a Special Guest Wrestle with Gerry Armstrong's Legal Scientology Nightmare - 2013-08-10
- Jon Atack announces a five-day Toronto conference on Scientology to take place in June - 2015-04-25
- Jon Atack Answers The Question: How Do Smart People Fall for Scientology? - 2013-11-02
- Jon Atack Considers L. Ron Hubbard's Tangled Relationship With Mind-Altering Substances - 2013-10-26
- Jon Atack excavates the Scientology mind for L. Ron Hubbard's most harmful implants - 2014-11-29
- Jon Atack Helps Us Remember Scientology's "Religious Freedom Crusade" - 2013-05-11
- Jon Atack looks back at his final Scientology auditing session - and how he broke free - 2014-12-20
- Jon Atack on Scientology - "The Church of Hate" - 2013-05-25
- Jon Atack on Scientology's fundamental feature: the thousand-yard stare - 2014-01-18
- Jon Atack on Scientology's methods of 'thought stopping' - 2014-02-08
- Jon Atack on the Church of Scientology - Part I - 2017-06-11
- Jon Atack on the Hypnotic History of Scientology Auditing - 2013-05-18
- Jon Atack on Why It's So Hard To Recover From Scientology - 2013-06-08
- Jon Atack packs a lot into a new short book - 'Scientology: The Cult of Greed' - 2014-12-12
- Jon Atack puts it to Scientologists - did L. Ron Hubbard have the qualities of a leader? - 2014-02-22
- Jon Atack quizzes Mike Rinder: Scientology's former spy chief on L. Ron Hubbard's paranoia - 2020-11-14
- Jon Atack takes apart the Scientology E-meter - 2014-02-01
- Jon Atack takes his presentation - 'Scientology: The Cult of Greed' - to Russia - 2014-09-29
- Jon Atack visits an org - ALSO: The richest Scientologist gets even richer! - 2015-03-07
- Jon Atack's final weekly column for us on Scientology, and it's a doozy - 2014-04-05
- Jon Atack: A Case of Scientology Fair Game Deflected with Disinfecting Sunlight - 2013-07-27
- Jon Atack: Are cult members - like those in Scientology - unduly influenced? - 2014-11-01
- Jon Atack: At the heart of Scientology is L. Ron Hubbard's paralyzing use of contradiction - 2014-11-24
- Jon Atack: Auditing and recovered memory - why do Scientologists accept it as fact? - 2015-05-30
- Jon Atack: Did L. Ron Hubbard want to be considered a god? - 2014-07-31
- Jon Atack: Did Mary Sue Hubbard Doubt Scientology's Key Experience? - 2013-11-16
- Jon Atack: Do Scientology's training routines turn you into a sociopath? - 2014-01-25
- Jon Atack: Escaping the trap Scientology sets for the mind - 2014-08-09
- Jon Atack: For Scientologists, thinking outside the church can feel like breaking a taboo - 2013-12-21
- Jon Atack: How Scientology's methods of manipulation stay with you after you leave - 2014-08-23
- Jon Atack: How to get a convinced Scientologist on the road to recovery - 2014-12-06
- Jon Atack: How to talk to a Scientologist to plant the seeds of doubt - 2014-10-04
- Jon Atack: Is Scientology really a 'church'? - 2021-10-23
- Jon Atack: Looking back on a week of Scientology enturbulation in Toronto - 2015-07-04
- Jon Atack: Scientology and hypnotism - even some ex-members can't admit its central role - 2014-10-25
- Jon Atack: Scientology's 'training routines' and their relationship to meditation - 2015-01-10
- Jon Atack: Scientology's early history is something most members don't actually know - 2015-06-12
- Jon Atack: Scientology's elusive 'Clears' and 'Operating Thetans' - where have they been? - 2015-01-31
- Jon Atack: Scientology's notion of 'case gain,' and how it reinforces the prison of belief - 2015-12-11
- Jon Atack: Scientology's snitch culture, and how ex-members must relearn the notion of privacy - 2015-07-12
- Jon Atack: Stop making excuses for L. Ron Hubbard and the Snow White Program! - 2015-05-23
- Jon Atack: The 'Axioms' - L. Ron Hubbard's attempt to make Scientology sound 'sciencey' - 2015-10-31
- Jon Atack: The 'Getting Clear' conference and L. Ron Hubbard's lies about his life - 2015-06-06
- Jon Atack: The abandoned ideas that L. Ron Hubbard turned into Dianetics - 2014-07-09
- Jon Atack: The best thing ever written about the language traps in Scientology's Bible, 'Dianetics' - 2016-01-08
- Jon Atack: The biggest thing L. Ron Hubbard got wrong about Buddhism - 2017-07-29
- Jon Atack: The games L. Ron Hubbard played - 2014-08-21
- Jon Atack: The harassment of independent Scientologists didn't begin with David Miscavige - 2014-03-01
- Jon Atack: The mystery of mysteries that all Scientologists chase - and can never find - 2015-09-05
- Jon Atack: The question Scientologists aren't allowed to ask each other - 2014-10-18
- Jon Atack: What it's like for the Scientologist who gives up the dream of being superhuman - 2015-01-03
- Jon Atack: What we have here - in Scientology - is a failure to communicate - 2013-12-14
- Jon Atack: When the militant Scientologist falters, you find a cowering 12-year-old inside - 2015-05-16
- Jon Atack: Why do Scientologists Find it So Difficult to Apologize? - 2013-11-23
- Jon Atack: Why I call Scientology a cult and not a church - 2014-03-22
- Jon Atack: Why it takes so long to recover from Scientology - 2014-03-08
- Judge bars unauthorized biography L. Ron Hubbard - 1990-01-30
- Judge Blocks Unauthorized Biography of Scientology Founder - 1990-01-31
- JUSTICES PERMIT STRICT CURBS ON USE OF UNPUBLISHED WRITING - 1990-02-21
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- L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology: An annotated bibliographical survey of primary and selected secondary literature - 1999-07-01
- L. Ron Hubbard's son was troubled, but don't discount him entirely: few knew his father better - 2017-12-16
- L. Ron Hubbard, deadbeat dad ALSO: Former members of Scientology show off their stuff - 2014-11-19
- Lawrence Wright's Going Clear: We Don't Think Scientology Is Going to Like This Book Much - 2013-01-17
- Lawrence Wright's Scientology Book Gets Some Thrashing from Cult Expert Steven Hassan - 2013-01-28
- Laying to rest the obfuscations of L. Fletcher Prouty, Scientology's conspiracist-for-hire - 2016-09-10
- Leaving Scientology: Jon Atack Navigates the Labyrinth of Paranoia - 2013-07-13
- LISTEN: Rare tape reveals how L. Ron Hubbard really came up with Scientology's space cooties - 2014-06-17
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- O Canada! All eyes in the Scientology-watching world will be looking north next week - 2015-06-16
- On the Scientology 'beat' with Tony Ortega - 2020-10-17
- One of Scientology's Early Celebrities: Charlie Manson! - 2013-04-06
- OT Powers: Jon Atack on Scientology's Promise to Make You Superhuman - 2013-06-15
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- Recovering from Scientology - 2015-05-01
- Recovery from Scientology (and other authoritarian cults) part two - ft. Chris Shelton - 2020-04-11
- Recovery from Scientology and other authoritarian cults - part three - 2020-05-23
- RFK Jr's anti-vax activism hits lowest spot ever - with Scientology and the Nation of Islam - 2015-06-20
- Ron Miscavige shakes off Scientology smears, rockets to 1 in ebooks - 2016-05-14
- RUSSELL MILLER'S BARE-FACED MESSIAH, BACK IN PRINT IN FEBRUARY! - 2013-12-05
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- Scientology - any regrets? - 2020-03-07
- SCIENTOLOGY ABANDONED BY L. RON HUBBARD'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND DAVID MISCAVIGE'S FATHER - 2012-06-29
- SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS, Ep 9: Director Paul Haggis responds to a lawsuit's rape allegations - 2020-10-05
- SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS: Tommy Davis threatens to sue Aussie network over axed series - 2020-10-17
- Scientology Book an Open Issue - 1999-05-25
- Scientology Celebrates its Legal Defense Slush Fund, and What a Party! - 2013-11-30
- Blog: Scientology Daily Digest: Saturday, November 16, 2013 - 2013-11-16
- Blog: Scientology Daily Digest: Saturday, November 9, 2013 - 2013-11-09
- Blog: Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard's Fake Purple Hearts and Bronze Star! - 2015-03-14
- Scientology Heresy: Jon Atack on L. Ron Hubbard's Debt to Psychiatry - 2013-09-07
- Scientology in England faces huge tax bills on its properties, and keeps failing to evade them - 2021-08-12
- Scientology in Ireland: 'a spy network setting honey traps' - 2016-10-15
- Scientology is Obsessed with Getting Books in Libraries - Here Are the Real Stats! - 2013-08-15
- Scientology litigation update: The Garcias respond, and the NAFC plays hardball - 2014-07-02
- Scientology miracles from its 1980s heyday: How do they compare to today? - 2021-06-22
- Scientology Mythbusting with Jon Atack: And With Help From Harlan Ellison! - 2013-02-16
- Scientology Mythbusting with Jon Atack: Fair Game! - 2013-02-23
- Scientology Mythbusting with Jon Atack: Original Spin - 2013-02-09
- Scientology Mythbusting with Jon Atack: That L. Ron Hubbard TV Ad! - 2013-03-02
- Scientology Mythbusting with Jon Atack: The Tomato Photo! - 2013-02-02
- Scientology Mythbusting with Jon Atack: Xenu the Galactic Overlord, Part 1! - 2013-03-09
- Scientology to US Supreme Court: Valerie Haney predicament is not a First Amendment case - 2021-06-26
- Scientology's biggest lie: That it will teach you to take control of your own life - 2016-10-19
- Scientology's COVID brochure – a covideo with Yuval Laor, PhD - 2020-07-24
- Scientology's Crumbling: Can Gerry Armstrong Begin to Think of Crossing the Border? - 2013-08-03
- Scientology's demonology: Where L. Ron Hubbard got the idea for your space cooties - 2016-04-02
- Scientology's first 'Clear': L. Ron Hubbard intended to return as his daughter Diana's son - 2015-01-20
- Scientology's hypnotic suggestion: What's true for you is what's true for L. Ron Hubbard - 2016-05-07
- Scientology's Notorious R2-45 Policy: Is There a Smoking Gun? - 2013-04-27
- Scientology's spies: L. Ron Hubbard's twisted legacy that proved his sickness - 2017-04-01
- Scientology's tiger: How L. Ron Hubbard created a language trap - 2017-09-22
- Scientology: Enough is Enough - John Sweeney Scientology and critical journalism - 2015-03-16
- Scientology: Enough is Enough - Jon Atack: Recovering from Scientology - 2015-03-15
- Scientology: Enough is Enough - Nancy Many & Dee Findlay - Leaving Scientology - 2015-03-22
- Scientology: Enough is Enough - Victoria Britton, The death of Kyle Brennan - 2015-03-17
- Scientology: Enough is Enough: Russell Miller publish and be damned - 2015-04-06
- Blog: Scientology: the authorized version - 2014-06-28
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- Technical training corps, hard sell, and moths - a conversation with Edwin Stratton - 2020-05-30
- Blog: The Church of Scientology and the Highly Obscene "R" Word - 2014-10-27
- The History of Scientology's Weird Vaults - The Bizarre Battlefield Earth Connection! - 2013-08-31
- The Man Who Got Me Out of Scientology - 2013-11-07
- The odd and slightly troubling thing Elon Musk and L. Ron Hubbard have in common - 2017-02-01
- The Saga of David Mayo: Scientology's Banished Tech Wizard - 2013-04-13
- The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 14: Tory Christman - 2011-08-31
- The Underground Bunker's 2018 Scientology year-in-review starts today! - 2018-12-21
- The way to break free from Scientology's mind trap: Admit to yourself that you're gullible - 2016-12-10
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- What Could L. Ron Hubbard Use on His 102nd Birthday? How About a Little SUPER POWER! - 2013-03-13
- What lessons from the Nxivm prosecution should Scientology watchers take? - 2021-06-15
- What Motivated L. Ron Hubbard? Historian Jon Atack Follows the Clues - 2013-08-26
- What Scientology itself says about the way it's going to change how your mind works - 2017-08-19
- What VICE magazine got wrong about Scientology in the UK - 2014-10-03
- When Jon Atack Declared David Miscavige a Suppressive Person - 2013-06-29
- When Rinder met Hubbard: A Scientology story for the ages - 2021-03-06