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Lawrence Wright

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Lawrence Wright is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of multiple books including "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief", and "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11". His newest title is "The End of October", a medical thriller about a doctor's race to stop a global pandemic.

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0:17Scientology, Going Clear, and why people are drawn to stigmatized religions

9:59Continuation: Why Scientology appeals through structure, community, and answers

20:13Immortality, aging, and the meaning of death

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Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Lawrence Wright, The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright, The End of October: A Novel

Lawrence Wright, Saints and Sinners: Walker Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Anton LaVey, Will Campbell, Matthew Fox

Lawrence Wright, Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory

L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health

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What Dallas Was Like During the JFK Assassination

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"Going Clear" Writer Lawrence Wright Talks Scientology and Tom Cruise

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What Lawrence Wright Learned About Jim Jones By Talking to His Sons

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