Old Print Articles: L. Ron Hubbard Book Reviews, Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1937/50)
October 10, 2014 in Books, Old Print Articles, Photography, Urban Studies | Permalink
Before he found religion in the non-profit sector, L. Ron Hubbard garnered some acclaim as a writer of pulp fiction, his first full-length work a Western. Below are the positive Brooklyn Daily Eagle review of that 1937 book; the paper’s dyspeptic 1950 take on Hubbard’s psychotherapy treatise, Dianetics; and a best-seller list from when the latter had begun to make its mark.
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From the August 1, 1937 edition:
From the December 10, 1950 edition:
From the November 26, 1950 edition:
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