From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, writer Brian Dark brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War.

In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities, and best-kept secrets of the Chilly War, where america fought an enemy of its own producing for over forty years — and nearly worried itself to death along the way. The nation chose to dread a chimera, a rotting communist empire that couldn’t actually nourish itself, about Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness limited to it to become revealed that what lay behind the Iron Drape was just a unhappy Potemkin village.

In fact, one of the biggest threats to our national security may have been our closest ally. The very best spy cell the Soviets ever endured was composed of aristocratic Englishmen schooled at Cambridge. Creating a communist peril but missing proof, J. Edgar Hoover became our Big Brother, and Joseph McCarthy proceeded to go trying to find witches. Richard Nixon stepped into the limelight as an opportunistic, ruthless Cool Warrior; his criminal cover-up throughout a dark presidency was exposed with a Deep Throat in a parking garage area.

Someone Is Out to Get Us is the true and complete account of a long-misunderstood amount of history during which lies, conspiracies, and paranoia led Americans into a condition of madness and misunderstanding, too distracted by fictions to understand that the true enemy was seeking back at them in the reflection the whole time.