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- Guardian Hay Festival 2002 - Jon Ronson - Jon Ronson discusses and reads from the picaresque travels recorded in Them: Adventures with Extremists. 60 minutes, Windows Media Player.
- Wikipedia - Jon Ronson - Encyclopaedia entry offers biography and bibliography of books written.
- Observer Review - Them by Jon Ronson - Reviewer Jason Cowley asks if Jon really cares about these extremists from all over the world: Omar Mohammed, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Dr Ian Paisley, David Icke, the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, or the Weavers.
- Salon - Jon Ronson - Joanna Smith Rakoff interviews the author of "Them: Adventures With Extremists" who discusses his time with Osama's London cohort, close calls with neo-Nazis, and the undeniable humanity of the world's would-be monsters.
- Northern Rivers Echo Word on Books - Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jeremy Fenton, reviewer. Journalist-by-day Jon Ronson has linked the dots together to come up with a startling and humorous - and not completely unsympathetic - picture of people who believe the world is controlled by a secret group of elites for their own nefarious purposes.
- NPR Fresh Air - British Journalist and Documentarian Jon Ronson - US National Public Radio audio, discussing his research for his book "Them: Adventures with Extremists".
- Guardian Unlimited Books - Beset by Lizards - Extensive extract from Jon Ronson's Them: Adventures With Extremists about following David Icke, whose fans turn out to be mostly concerned with the perils of global capitalism. How "we" can turn into the villains, the hidden hand - "them".
- Jon Ronson - Official site of the writer and documentary film maker whose books include Them: Adventures with Extremists. Includes video clips, news, projects and links. [RealPlayer]
- Guardian Unlimited Books - Who Pulls the Strings? - Extensive extract from Them: Adventures With Extremists by Jon Ronson, about tracking down the Bilderberg Group with Big Jim Tucker of Washington DC.
- Guardian Unlimited Books - Stranger than Fiction - Louis Theroux reviews Jon Ronson's Them: Adventures with Extremists. The book was written after spending several years in the company of a few of these fringe-dwellers, in an attempt to understand their mindset and to see to what - if any - extent their fears were founded in fact.
Wikipedia Articles
- Jon Ronson - Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a Cardiff-born journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter. His journalism and columns have appeared in British publications including The Guardian newspaper and Time Out magazine.
- THEM: Adventures with Extremists - THEM: Adventures with Extremists is a book by British journalist Jon Ronson published in 2001. The book accompanied Ronson's documentary series Secret Rulers of the World, which covered similar topics and depicted many of the same episodes.
- Secret Rulers of the World - Secret Rulers of the World was a five part series of documentary films written, directed by and featuring British journalist Jon Ronson. The series was first shown on the British television network Channel 4 on April 2001.