The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer
reprint by Harper Perennial, 2019

The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
Reprint edition, Penguin Books, 2017

Extraordinary Popular Delusions
by Charles Mackay
Reprint by Dover Publications, 2017

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
by Barton Gellman
Penguin Books, 2016

Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
by Alexandra Stein
Routledge, 2016

American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why
by Mark Stein
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
by Joost A. M. Merloo
Reprint by Progressive Press, 2009

Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance
by Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda
2nd edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2009

Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace
by Margaret Thaler Singer
revised edition, Jossey-Bass, 2003