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Conspiracies of conspiracies : how delusions have overrun America / Thomas Milan Konda.
LIBRA AZ999 .K65 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Konda, Thomas Milan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conspiracy theories.
- History--Errors, inventions, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 442 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction: conspiracy theories and conspiracism
- The invention of conspiracy theory: the French Revolution and the Bavarian Illuminati
- Conspiracism takes shape in the United States
- Preconditions for modern conspiracism: Jewish assimilation, premillennialism, and Aryan occultism
- The international Jewish conspiracy and the secret government
- The emergence of the hidden hand
- The rise and fall of the hidden hand
- From neo-Nazi to white supremacist conspiracism
- The emergence of the new world order
- The conspiracy of personal destruction
- The planners take over
- Pan-ideological conspiracy theories: denialism and cover-up
- Conspiracism proliferates: some anomalies
- Christian identity and the white race
- The government conspiracy against "us"
- Conspiracism rebounds: truthers, birthers, and the new militias
- Conspiracism enters the mainstream
- The attack on science
- Democracy and civil society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226585765
- 022658576X
- OCLC:
- 1048071976
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