TO:....................READERS OF ANGB AND OTHER RECIPIENTS

FROM:............EL

DATE:.............NOVEMBER 22, 2006

RE:....................MAJOR NEW BOOK BY KEVIN BARRETT


Dear Readers:

Truth Jihad, the extraordinary new book by Kevin Barrett, is due from Progressive Press this coming January/February. This is tremendously good news.

Barrett is the founder of the important and influential MUJCA (Muslim Jewish Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth) and has himself emerged as one of the most dedicated, eloquent, humane, humorous, and influential of all the many who are involved seriously in the 9/11 Truth movement. I want to go on record as saying that the publication of Truth Jihad is an event of far more than routine significance, both for the Truth movement itself and for the present state of publishing in general.

In short, Truth Jihad is a book not only true, but, unlike any other work that I know on the subject of 9/11 truth, it's a powerful and most intensely appealing combination of the humane, the authentic, the personal, the universal, the impassioned, the reasoned, the thoughtful, the irreverent, the reverent, the serious, the satiric, and—hardly infrequently—one of the funniest things you're ever likely to read.

Barrett is a unique and uniquely important figure, and he's written a unique—and uniquely powerful and indispensable—book on 9/11. But it's a book also on his own life as student, as young graduate, then as writer, married man, convert to Islam, father, and—more now than ever—emergent public figure who hilariously and powerfully advances the cause of 9/11 Truth.

You can most easily find out that all these things I'm saying are true by reading Truth Jihad itself—which you can do by ordering it directly from the press.

And you can read what I myself wrote about the book after having been so lucky as to have read it in manuscript.

And, for a real treat, you can read not just one excerpt from Truth Jihad itself but more. As you read these sections from the book—and as the life and drive and humanity and humor and sheer good character of the passages impel you, don't hesitate, again, to order the book. I did. And I'll be grateful for it all over again, and stirred by it all over again—braced by its earnest yet funny, scholarly yet personal, intellectual yet comradely, theoretical yet also perfectly blunt telling of the plain and obvious truth about 9/11, and by its homage to life, nation, people, family, children—and, above all, to a future that's intact, whole, honest, and true.

May such a future come to be. Somehow.

Buy the book. Read the book. Treasure it. If, as with A Nation Gone Blind, you find Truth Jihad going unreviewed in the "mainstream" papers, magazines, and other so-called "major" review outlets—well, given the way things are now in our unwell and endangered nation, you can take such an ignoring of it as a credit to the book for being in fact a huge, moving, humane, and passionate voice for the truth—exactly the sort of thing that does not get reviewed in these dark and compromised days.

Trust me. I've been there. I know. And I also know Kevin's book.


......................................................................Eric Larsen
......................................................................November 22, 2006

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