Ralph Blumenthal’s “The Believer” tells the beguiling story of John Mack, a renowned Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize winner whose career came to be defined by his study of people who said they’d had encounters with aliens. Mack believed them, and his life was never the same. Blumenthal, a long-time New York Times journalist and now a Distinguished Lecturer at Baruch College, explores what happens when a brilliant and unshackled mind confronts a question of the ages — Are we alone? — and comes up with an elusive and ultimately unprovable answer. The book is especially timely with the government’s release of a report last week about nearly 150 sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena that did not rule out aliens.
Ralph Blumenthal was a staff reporter for The New York Times for 45 years, joining the paper after graduating from City College in 1963. His long and prolific career has ranged from from investigative to cultural reporting, included foreign postings in Vietnam and Europe and 7 nonfiction books. He still writes for the Times and last year broke the story of Navy pilots reporting encounters with unexplained aerial phenomena. At Baruch, he is a Distinguished Lecturer who supervises historical collections in the Newman Library.
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