Moonstruck: A Memoir of My Life in a Cult [Hardcover]

Allen Tate Wood (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Morrow & Co.; First Edition edition (1979)
• ASIN: B000NQK4UC
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars MoonStruck: a descent into religious fascism, November 4, 2000

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Allen Tate Wood "knight errant in a foreign land" (Portsmouth, NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moonstruck: A memoir of my life in a cult (Hardcover)

The author, Allen Tate Wood , November 4, 2000 MoonStruck exposes the global political ambitions of Sun Myung Moon. Allen, as political leader of the Moonies in North America in 1970, went on a V.I.P. tour of Asia including Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia. In Japan he met and worked with Japanese leaders of the Unification Church including Ryo Ichi Sasakawa and Osami Kuboki and with many of the key figures in the World Anti Communist League from Europe, the U.S., Asia and Latin America . In Korea he had a series of private audiences with Mr. Moon during which he was instructed on "Moon's plan of attack in America". In Vietnam he met with President Thieu. In Cambodia he met with General Lon Nol, the leader of Cambodia. On returning to America Allen was invited to join the Nixon White House staff as a "youth consultant". MoonStruck provides a cogent exposition of Moon's global political strategy as well as a moving first hand account of an idealistic young man who followed Moon into the abyss of religious facism.


MoonStruck is an autobiographical tour de force: a recapitulation of my life before during and after my four and one half years in the Moonies. My friend Henry Marshall described it as " a modern day pilgrim's progress with an extended stay among the Moonies,Wood's self-examination charts a way through a dark night of the soul in which many are still stranded."

4.0 out of 5 stars Clear narrative of a Cult Experience, January 6, 2006

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Miss Hater "Avid Reader" (Kentucky,USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moonstruck: A memoir of my life in a cult (Hardcover)

This is a enjoyable, relatable , detailed version of one young mans spiritual journey that led him into the folds of the Unification Church{More commonly known as the Moonies} for over 4 years, his disillusionment and his eventual defection.
Its written in a personal, accessible style that allows you a close up view of his thought processes every step of the way.
Its also a birds eye view of the first major ground swell of the Unification Church in the US in the late 60s/Early 70's.