Gifts of Deceit

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Gifts of Deceit

Book cover
Author Robert Boettcher
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Subject(s) Politics, Unification Church
Genre(s) non-fiction
Publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Publication date 1980
Media type Hardcover
Pages 402
ISBN ISBN 0030445760 ,
ISBN 978-0030445767

Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park, and the Korean Scandal is a non-fiction book on Koreagate and the United States Congressional investigation of the Unification Church, authored by Robert Boettcher, with Gordon L. Freedman[1]. The book was published in paperback and hardcover editions, in 1980.

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[edit] About the author

Back cover of book, depicting author Robert Boettcher.
Back cover of book, depicting author Robert Boettcher.

Robert Boettcher graduated with an M.S. in international relations, from Georgetown University[2]. Boettcher served the United States as a Foreign Service officer[2]. Boettcher later was the Staff Director to the House Subcommittee on International Relations, which headed the investigation into Tongsun Park, Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church[2]. In this capacity, Boettcher served under the Congressional Committee's chair, Congressman Donald Fraser[3].

[edit] Cited by secondary works

Boettcher's work is cited extensively in Farrell's Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century[4]. The book itself was noted in United States Congressional investigations on "The Cult Phenomenon in the United States", in 1979[5]. Gifts of Deceit is also cited in Breen's The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies[6], Anderson's Inside the League[7], and is recommended reading by Olsen's Korea, the Divided Nation[8] and Kim's Dictionary of Asian-American History[9].

In addition to political books, Gifts of Deceit is cited in books which analyze new religious movements, including Another Gospel[10], The Future of New Religious Movements[11], Crime, Values, and Religion[12], Spiritual Warfare[13], and more recently in Jenkins' Mystics and Messiahs, in 2000[14].

[edit] Usage as reference

Gifts of Deceit was referenced in a 1989 Task Force Report by the American Psychiatric Association, entitled: "Cults and New Religious Movements"[15].

The book was also referenced in the Nomination hearing before the United States Senate, for Edward J. Derwinski[16]. Portions of the book were quoted and read into the public record[16].

[edit] Reception

In his work, The Ethics of Citizenship, James Stockdale recommends Gifts of Deceit and states that it is "very revealing", and deals with the "questionable conduct" of Sun Myung Moon[17]. The New Republic called it a "most complete account" of Sun Myung Moon[18]. The Washington Post reviewed the work, but stated that portions of the Koreagate Scandal may have been due to media hype[19].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Olsen, Edward A. (2002). Toward Normalizing U.S. Korea Relations: in due course?. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 36. ISBN 1588261093. 
  2. ^ a b c Maurer, Harry (1998). Strange Ground PB: An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam, 1945-1975. Da Capo Press, 6, 290-294, 302, 622. ISBN 0306808390. 
  3. ^ Staff. "Robert Boettcher, Staff Chief In House Inquiry, Dies in Fall", The New York Times, The New York Times Company, May 30, 1984. 
  4. ^ Farrell, John Aloysius (2001). Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century. Back Bay, 729, 730, 746. ISBN 0316185701. 
  5. ^ United States Congress, Biographical Sketches of Participants, "The Cult Phenomenon in the United States", February 5, 1979, Senator Bob Dole, presiding.
  6. ^ Breen, Michael (2004). The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies. St. Martin's Press, 271, 272, 274. ISBN 0312242115. 
  7. ^ Anderson, Scott; Jon Lee Anderson (1986). Inside the League. Dodd, Mead, 297. 
  8. ^ Olsen, Edward A. (2005). Korea, the Divided Nation. Praeger/Greenwood, 184. ISBN 0275983072. 
  9. ^ Kim, Hyung-chan (1986). Dictionary of Asian American History. Greenwood Pub Group, 528. ISBN 0313237603. 
  10. ^ Tucker, Ruth A. (1989). Another Gospel. Zondervan, 446. ISBN 0310259371. 
  11. ^ Bromley, David G.; Phillip E. Hammond (1987). The Future of New Religious Movements. Mercer University Press, 233. ISBN 0865540950. 
  12. ^ Day, James M.; William S. Laufer (1987). Crime, Values, and Religion. Praeger/Greenwood, 188. ISBN 0893914118. 
  13. ^ Diamond, Sara (1989). Spiritual Warfare. South End Press, 252. ISBN 0896083616. 
  14. ^ Jenkins, Philip (2000). Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History. Oxford University Press, 275. ISBN 0195127447. 
  15. ^ Galanter, Marc; American Psychiatric Association Committee on Psychiatry and Religion (1989). Cults and New Religious Movements: Task Force Report of the American Psychiatric Association. American Psychiatric Pub, Inc., 191, 332. ISBN 0890422125. 
  16. ^ a b United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs (1989). Nomination of Hon. Edward J. Derwinski: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. United States Government, 105. 
  17. ^ Stockdale, James B. (1981). The Ethics of Citizenship. University of Texas Press, 141. 
  18. ^ Staff. "Brief Reviews", New Republic, May 17, 1980. 
  19. ^ Marro, Anthony. "Messiahs, Manipulators and Media Hype", The Washington Post, Apr 20, 1980, pp. Section: Book World. 

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