Brainwashed

Praise for Rome or Death -- : Pick scrupulously examines the scientific background to Garibaldi's obsession ... stimulating, often ingenious approach ... a clever and illuminating study * Independent on Sunday * Tremendous ... Pick tells the story of Garibaldi's failed Tiber venture with flair, mingling psychological speculation with biography and history * Sunday Telegraph * A fascinating dissection of a slice of European history * Economist * A fascinating exploration * Daily Telegraph * Richly absorbing, perceptive, often funny and moving * Literary Review * Intelligent, discriminating, subtle, dispassionate, sensitive to context, and to nuance ... provides the indispensable perspective for further discussion and reasoned argument * Times Literary Supplement * An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell under its spell immediately -- Simon Garfield Daniel Pick's new book is a fascinating exploration of brainwashing, advertising and other mind manipulations. Focusing on the second half of the 20th century but bringing the story right up to date with a penetrating consideration of recent conspiracy theories, it is absorbing, accessible, scholarly and of profound contemporary importance -- Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College