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The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America Audiobook, by Matthew Bowman Play Audiobook Sample

The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America Audiobook

The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America Audiobook, by Matthew Bowman Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Asa Siegel Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798350853926

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

19

Longest Chapter Length:

44:48 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

24:48 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

32:34 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft against their will. Their story—involving a lonely highway late at night, lost memories, and medical examinations by small gray creatures with large eyes—has become the template for nearly every encounter with aliens in American popular culture since.

Historian Matthew Bowman examines the Hills' story not only as a foundational piece of UFO folklore but also as a microcosm of 1960s America. The Hills, an interracial couple who lived in New Hampshire, were civil rights activists, supporters of liberal politics, and Unitarians. But when their story of abduction was repeatedly ignored or discounted by authorities, they lost faith in the scientific establishment, the American government, and the success of the civil rights movement.

Bowman tells the fascinating story of the Hills as an account of the shifting winds in American politics and culture in the second half of the twentieth century. He exposes the promise and fallout of the idealistic reforms of the 1960s and how the myth of political consensus has given way to the cynicism and conspiratorialism and the paranoia and illusion of American life today.

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About Matthew Bowman

Matthew Bowman received his PhD in American religious history from Georgetown University in May 2011, and a master’s in American history from the University of Utah. He is Associate Professor of History at Henderson State University.