'BARE-FACED MESSIAH' back in print: Our interview with author Russell Miller - 2014-03-13

A year after Hubbard died in 1986, the best book ever written about him was published by a British journalist named Russell Miller. Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard was immediately sued by the Church of Scientology all over the English-speaking part of the world, but only in the United States was the church successful at shutting it down, and only a small number of copies have been available here. But now, Miller's book is getting new life as Humfrey Hunter's Silvertail Books (the same UK publisher who put out John Sweeney's book Church of Fear) is releasing Bare-Faced Messiah in hardback and as an e-book. Copies started arriving this week, and so we had a conversation with Miller about his book's struggles, the harassment he went through personally, and what he thought of The Master.
- 1951
- 1952
- 1986
- 2014
- Aberree
- Appeal
- Australia
- Bare-Faced Messiah
- Basics
- Berlin
- Boston
- California
- Canada
- Chicago
- Chris Shelton
- Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
- Corfu
- David Miscavige
- Denver
- Dianetics
- East Grinstead
- Eugene Ingram
- Europe
- Freedom of Information Act
- Germany
- Gerry Armstrong
- Hemet
- High Court
- Humfrey Hunter
- J.D. Salinger
- John Sweeney
- Karen de la Carriere
- London
- Los Angeles
- Marty Rathbun
- Mexico
- New York
- News article
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Russell Miller
- San Francisco
- San Luis Obispo
- Scientology lawyer
- Sea Org
- Sheep dipping
- Silvertail Books
- South Africa
- Submarine
- Sunday Times
- The Master
- The Sunday Times
- Tony Ortega
- UK
- Underground Bunker
- Vexatious litigation
- Village Voice
- Washington