The Men Who Stare at Goats, by Jon Ronson

The Men Who Stare at Goats, by Jon Ronson, is a look into the psychic spy operations that have been funded and supported by the government from the LSD experiments in the 50′s to blasting interrogation subjects with the “Barney” theme song in the war on terror.
I usually have no patience for either hippies or crackpots, and this book is rife with them, so I hard a hard time with the first few chapters, but just as I was getting ready to roll my eyes and shut the book, Ronson started delving into the historical aspects of psychic warfare, and the book really took off. I learned some things about our off-kilter methods of modern warfare, and there were a few twists that I didn’t see coming, which is pretty difficult to do in a non-fiction book.
If the movie has piqued your interest, or you’ve wondered about those rumors about psychic spies, Ronson’s book will be a revelation.

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