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For more than sixty years, the Church of Scientology has vigorously promoted an image of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, as a romantic adventurer and philosopher whose early life fortuitously prepared him, in the manner of Jesus Christ, for his declared mission to save the world. The glorification of ‘Ron’, superman and saviour, required a cavalier disregard for facts: thus it is that every biography of Hubbard published by the church is interwoven with lies, half-truths and ludicrous embellishments. The wondrous irony of this deception is that the true story of L. Ron Hubbard is much more bizarre, much more improbable, than any of the lies.According to the colourful yarn spun for the benefit of his followers, L. Ron Hubbard was descended on his mother’s side from a French nobleman, one Count de Loupe, who took part in the Norman invasion of England in 1066; on his father’s side, the Hubbards were English settlers who had arrived in America in the nineteenth century. It was altogether a distinguished naval family: both his maternal great-grandfather, ‘Captain’ I. C. DeWolfe, and his grandfather, ‘Captain’ Lafayette Waterbury, ‘helped make American naval history’[1], while his father w

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Author

Miller, Russell

Publisher

Silvertail Books : [distributor] Print-On-Demand-Worldwide

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781909269149

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Religion, Islam

Rating

4.05 / 5 (376 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14