The Mumpsimus

By court order, the U.S. government has to sell off Theodore " Unabomber " Kaczynski's stuff . Intrepid and well-funded buyers can bid on such things as the sunglasses and sweatshirt made famous in the forensic sketch , various tools and personal items, numerous manuscripts, and a few typewriters, including the one he used to write his manifesto. All good fun for the memento-seeker, and the proceeds go toward restitution to his victims' families. I was curious to see what books he had. Lot 12 consists of 5 paperbacks the FBI thought were particularly important: Chinese Political Thought in the Twentieth Century by Chester C. Tan, The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul, The True Believer by Eric Hoffer, Violence in America , and The Ancient Engineers by L. Sprague De Camp . Other lots include a well-worn Bible, a manual for wilderness survival, and various battered paperbacks mostly concerned with history and science, though there's also a collectio...