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Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon
An expose of Sun Myung Moon's indictment and trial for tax evasion and conspiracy examines the validity of the charges
705 pages, Hardcover
First published June 25, 1991
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June 11, 2014
I never thought that I would ever read this book. Growing up, I saw that my parents had many copies of this book in our basement. At that time, I thought to myself, "That looks like a really long and boring book." Well, you would think it would be. The Inquisition is basically 600 pages about the trial that convicted Sun Myung Moon and Takeru Kamiyama of tax evasion and conspiracy.
What led me to consider reading this book was that I had just finished reading Nan Sook Hong's book, "In the Shadow of the Moons". I wanted to find something else on the Unification Church that would be more objective. Unfortunately, the options were limited, and I ended up settling on this book and another.
What really surprised me about this book was how engaging it was. Carlton Sherwood won the Pulitzer and Peabody awards for his work in uncovering religious scandals. At the time he wrote Inquisition, he was the only journalist to have won both awards. His original intent in writing this book was to uncover another religious scandal. However, after two years of research while working at the Unification Church-owned Washington Time, Sherwood was coming up empty handed. It was at that time he discovered that there was a much bigger story at hand, namely the story about how the government forced the conviction of Rev. Moon in a way that had members of clergy all around the country standing up in protest.
I thought it would take me months to get through it, but I couldn't put the book down and had finished it within a week. The whole story was actually very interesting and exciting, at least I thought so.
I have grown up hearing about how Rev. Moon had been wrongfully convicted and jailed, that it was issue of religious persecution more than anything else. I decided that it was time for me to learn for myself what it was all about instead of relying solely on what other people have told me. To make a long story short, this book really delivered. It was well-researched, with a very extensive appendix full of references. And well, when you read about all that happened in order for the government to convict Rev. Moon, it is definitely an eye-opener.
What led me to consider reading this book was that I had just finished reading Nan Sook Hong's book, "In the Shadow of the Moons". I wanted to find something else on the Unification Church that would be more objective. Unfortunately, the options were limited, and I ended up settling on this book and another.
What really surprised me about this book was how engaging it was. Carlton Sherwood won the Pulitzer and Peabody awards for his work in uncovering religious scandals. At the time he wrote Inquisition, he was the only journalist to have won both awards. His original intent in writing this book was to uncover another religious scandal. However, after two years of research while working at the Unification Church-owned Washington Time, Sherwood was coming up empty handed. It was at that time he discovered that there was a much bigger story at hand, namely the story about how the government forced the conviction of Rev. Moon in a way that had members of clergy all around the country standing up in protest.
I thought it would take me months to get through it, but I couldn't put the book down and had finished it within a week. The whole story was actually very interesting and exciting, at least I thought so.
I have grown up hearing about how Rev. Moon had been wrongfully convicted and jailed, that it was issue of religious persecution more than anything else. I decided that it was time for me to learn for myself what it was all about instead of relying solely on what other people have told me. To make a long story short, this book really delivered. It was well-researched, with a very extensive appendix full of references. And well, when you read about all that happened in order for the government to convict Rev. Moon, it is definitely an eye-opener.
July 25, 2011
The true story about how the IRS rail-roaded an innocent man, unjustly sending him to federal prison.
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