About the Book: Former CIA analyst Buck Sexton draws on his intelligence background and knowledge of history’s darkest totalitarian regimes to explain how citizens are manipulated into mass compliance and delusion. Examining tactics used by Stalin, Chinese thought reform, and jihadist propaganda, Sexton identifies eight recurring methods of mind control and argues some early warning signs are already emerging in the U.S. around public health, gender, and racial justice debates. An unsettling look at how societies slide toward Orwellian conformity-and how to resist it.