Ted Kaczynski: Truth Versus Lies
Richard Prince's Fulton Ryder edition of Truth Versus Lies, the prison memoir in which Ted Kaczynski answers his family's account of him.
Context Books announced the book in 1999 and dropped it after a dispute with its author. Kaczynski wrote it to refute the defense his family and lawyers built to save him from the death penalty. They argued he was mentally ill, a claim he believed would discredit his ideas. The memoir covers his years at Harvard, his early activism and the brother who turned him in. It also rebuts the acquaintances who sold their stories to the press. Prince acquired the text and issued it in sewn softcover wrappers, 348 pages. The book still carries the 1999 copyright date and the ISBN of the cancelled edition. Copies were not sold. They went only to people who gave to prison reform.
Fulton Ryder is Prince's own imprint. It publishes his artist's books alongside texts by other writers. This edition is No. 139 in Bibliothèque d'un Amateur, the 2021 bibliography of Prince's publications by Vincent Pécoil, Robert Rubin and Yann Sérandour.
