Them

Blurb

Them: Adventures with Extremists is a book by British journalist Jon Ronson published in 2001.
The book accompanied Ronson's documentary series The Secret Rulers of the World, which covered similar topics and depicted many of the same episodes. Both the series and book detail Ronson's encounters following theorists and activists residing on the fringes of the political, religious, and sociological spectrum.
Ronson chronicles his travels and interviews with “extremists” and attempts to uncover the mystery behind the “tiny elite that rules the world from inside a secret room”. The book is written on the premise that perhaps extremists are not all that crazy, and as different as they may seem to be, they have a lot in common with each other. From Omar Bakri Mohammed to Thom Robb, Ronson exposes the hilarity and absurdity of their missions, but also, at times, their startling sanity.
His adventures lead him from Britain to Ruby Ridge, Idaho, to Waco, Texas, all the way to Portugal. Ronson documents his journeys through the world with extremist tour guides and “the result is a funny, superbly controlled account of his wanderings through the wonderland of fanaticism and delusion”.