Mad Genius: Odyssey, Pursuit & Capture of the Unabomber Suspect

by Nancy Gibbs, Lance Morrow, Richard Lacayo

Mad Genius: Odyssey, Pursuit & Capture of the Unabomber Suspect (Mass Market Paperback) by Jill Smolowe This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446604593
• ISBN13: 9780446604598
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

very clear, very informative, very quickly written... :)

It's clear right from the start that Mad Genius was written in a hurry. The writing is uneven in places, there are stylistic rough edges, but this is no novel, and if Kaczynski would like a nicer biography he'll just have to write one himself. Still, the book is timely, and important, and sufficiently well written to make for easy reading.The book helps answer many questions about the Unabomber: - What are the facts of the case? [ not a trivial question for such a protracted case ]- What is the Ted Kaczynski's background? Who is he, where did he come from, could anyone have guessed that this is what he was up to?- Why he did it -- motives, frustrations, ideas.And that's basically all that most people will ever want to know about the unabomber and his story. The book will also give you plenty of minutia to relish over, such as his the inventory of his cabin at the time of the arrest, what "technology" (or lack thereof) did he use to assemble his bombs, and it lists his manifesto in full. The book is not expensive and read quickly -- get it, read it, satisfy your morbid curiosity! :)

We need real information...

Has anybody ever seen a complete list of the contents of Ted's cabin? I need to know the books he had. I've heard he had hundreds of books. What were they? Can anyone tell me what books Ted was reading? Have you noticed how the press squashed that aspect of this man's life?