British journalist and documentarian Jon Ronson

Fresh Air

Published February 21, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

His book is called Them: Adventures with Extremists. (Simon and Schuster). He traveled around the world interviewing different types of extremistsfrom Islamic fundamentalists in a Jihad training camp, to Ku Klux Klansmen at rallies. Them was first published in the U.K. in the spring of 2001.

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