Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0922915970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 239 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ron Hubbard, and signed an oath asserting himself to be the Antichrist--clearly Parsons wasn't a boring guy in a white coat. Sex and Rockets looks at his short life and dual career as cofounder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and leader of the Agape Lodge of Aleister Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). Author John Carter scours primary documents and interviews surviving friends and contemporaries to deliver an intriguing portrait of a dreamy, driven man equally interested in rocketry and magick. From his early childhood and deep attachment to his mother (who killed herself hours after he died) through his nonacademic research and brilliant innovations in solid fuels to his mysterious 1952 demise in a garage-laboratory explosion at the age of 37, the reader gets the impression of a man whose obsession
“One of the best books of the year.”—The Anomalist. This remarkable true story about the co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory. By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a solid rocket fuel that helped the Allies win World War II. By night, Parsons called himself The Antichrist
"It's just okay" according to Canyonrat56. This book manages to take a fascinating subject--a key rocket scientist who was into the occult--and turn it into a dull read. I'd be okay with that were it an academic treatises but it isn't. Not a good book; it's just okay.. TW Huey said A well-researched biography. My one knock on it is. A well-researched biography. My one knock on it is that it relies too much on excerpts from other sources.. "Five Stars" according to Ethosphere. eye opening shocking