The 21st Century Edition
by David Icke
Recommended by Alice Walker
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This is a polemical, assertion-driven book that strings together broad claims about secret societies, elite networks, and media influence as a single explanation for many global events. The prose is confident and repetitive: opening sections grab attention with bold links between topics, the middle reuses similar anecdotes, and the ending restates large conclusions. Useful if you want a compact statement of Icke’s claims or material to critique in class or reporting; limiting if you prefer careful sourcing, cautious qualification, or restrained argumentation.
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David Icke exposes what he calls the real story behind global events which shape the future of human existence & the world we leave our children. He lifts the veil on a web of interconnected manipulation to claim that the same few people, secret societies & organizations control the daily direction of our lives....
Difficulty:hard
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