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2011

Format:	Book
Author:	Martin, Joel, 1945-
Title:	The haunting of twentieth-century America / Joel Martin and William Birnes.
Edition:	1st ed.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Forge, ©2011.
Description:	464 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:	Reveals the influence of the paranormal on various historical events, from a UFO sighting that nearly triggered a nuclear war to the use of out-of-body clairvoyance to gather intelligence.
Subjects:	Spiritualism -- United States -- Anecdotes. Ghosts -- United States -- Anecdotes. Parapsychology -- United States -- Anecdotes. Popular culture -- United States -- Anecdotes. United States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Genre:	Anecdotes.
Other Author:	Birnes, William J.
Notes:	"A Tom Doherty Associates Book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-464).
Contents:	The dark side of the paranormal: the Nazis and the occult -- New Orleans: a haunted history -- The age of spiritualism and predictions of disaster -- Edgar Cayce: the sleeping psychic -- The subconscious, relativity, surrealism, and the paranormal -- America's search for past lives -- All the presidents' prophets: Americans and astrology -- Ghosts, spirits, and demons in America -- New age, psychic dreams, and revolutions.
LCCN:	2011019775
ISBN:	9780765323545 0765323540 9780765327857 0765327856
Other Number:	704383841
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	309936
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Call Number:	973.91 Martin

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