Jon Ronson is a Cardiff-born Jewish journalist and author. His work has appeared in The Guardian newspaper. He has also presented a number of television programmes including the late-night debating show For The Love Of... and a series counterpart to his book Them: Adventures With Extremists.

His tone is light, humorous and thoughtful. He is usually quite visible in his articles as a character rather than simply reporting the facts. His articles are stories about how he gathers his information, rather than just a presentation of that information.

Works

Them: Adventures With Extremists deals with people considered extreme by conventional wisdom, such as David Icke and Omar Bakri Muhammad, as well as the Bilderberg Group and the Ku Klux Klan.

The Men Who Stare At Goats deals with the a secret New Age unit within the US Army called the First Earth Battalion . Ronson investigates people such as Major General Albert Stubblebine III, former head of intelligence, who believe that people can walk through walls with the right mental preparation – and that goats can be killed simply by staring at them. Much was based on the ideas of Lt. Col. Jim Channon , ret., who wrote the First Earth Battalion Operations Manual in 1979, inspired by the emerging human potential movement of California..

Bibliography

• The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson (Hardcover - Picador - November 19, 2004) ISBN 0330375474
• Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson (Hardcover - Picador, 2001) ISBN 0330375458, (Hardcover - Simon & Schuster, 2002), ISBN 0743227077 (Paperback - Simon & Schuster - January 1, 2003) ISBN 0743233212
• Clubbed Class - Jon Ronson (Hardcover - Pavilion Books Ltd - October 27, 1994) ISBN 1857933206

External links

• Jon Ronson official site
• From Ronson Jon Ronson's blog
• Open Directory Project Jon Ronson directory category including book reviews
• Guardian Unlimited Books The Road to Abu Ghraib extract from The Men Who Stare At Goats
• Guardian Unlimited Books Beset by Lizards extract from Them: Adventures with Extremists
• First Earth Battalion Field Manual (pdf)
• First Earth Battalion Article
• Jon Ronson Multimedia mixed media, interviews, readings and reviews.