Dark PersuasionA "highly readable and compelling" account (Science) of brainwashings pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty first centuries Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . . shows how the art of dark persuasion a generation ago led almost inevitably to todays misinformation, cyberbullying and cultlike behavior on the Internet.Dina Temple Raston, Washington Post This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious