Let's Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky: Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology (76 page)

Gratitude is also due to those authors whose work made my
own less daunting: the late Joseph Winter, Martin Gardner, the late Helen
O’Brien, George Malko, Paulette Cooper, Cyril Vosper, Bob Kaufman, the late
Christopher Evans, C.H. Rolph, John Forte and most especially Roy Wallis for
The
Road to Total Freedom
. I am also in debt to the
St Petersburg Times
and the
Clearwater Sun
for their excellent coverage of Scientology.

The litigious nature of the Scientologists has frightened
most publishers into silence. Lyle Stuart and Steven Schragis were not intimidated,
and I am extremely grateful to them. Finally, my thanks to our attorney, Mel
Wulf, for his patient attention to detail; to my editor Bob

Smith; and to all at Carol Communications for making this
book a published reality.

Acknowledgments
for the 2013 Edition

My gratitude is due to the many people who have continued to
champion this book. Most especially to my brothers Jamie and Andrew, for unflagging
support and encouragement, to my nephew Tom – the best of friends in the worst
of times – and to their wives, Janet, Sarah and Charlotte, without whom that
support would not have been possible, so great were my demands upon their
husbands’ time. I must also thank Ed Lottick, the late Margaret Singer and an
anonymous donor, who bought the manuscript from my bankruptcy, snatching it
from the hands of Scientology, at the last moment. To Jonny Jacobsen, Christian
Szurko, and Richard and Bonnie Woods, constant friends, even through the
foulest weather. To Gerry Armstrong, with whom I shall always act in concert.
To Steve Hassan, for his unstinting encouragement. To the marvelous illustrator
who turned my crayon scribble into a book cover. To Ed, David, Ali, the two
Marks, Jonny, the Frenchman, to my kids, to Amelie, and to all of those brave
people who continue to help Scientologists to understand the true nature of old
man Hubbard and his insidiously devious ways.