| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxiii, 340 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"America is awash with conspiracy theories, and the shared view of reality we once took for granted has been permanently shattered. Jonathan Kay uses the 9/11 Truth movement as a springboard to examine this fragmented national mindset"--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Pt. I The Truth Movement and Its Ancestors -- 1.American Conspiracism: A Brief History ; Programmed for Conspiracy ; Populism and Paranoia: How Politics Shaped American Conspiracism ; The Men in Black: How Technology Shaped American Conspiracism ; The Emergence of "Flowchart Conspiracism" -- 2.Warrant for Genocide, Blueprint for Paranoia ; A Dark Fairy Tale ; Singularity ; Boundless Evil ; Incumbency ; Greed ; Cui Bono? ; Hypercompetence ; Covering Their Tracks -- 3.False Flags and Lava Lamps: The Birth of a Conspiracy Movement ; Ken Jenkins: Videographer, Flower Child, Truther ; Operation Northwoods and Its Legacy ; Project for the New American Century: A Modern Northwoods -- 4."Show Me the Birth Certificate": Conspiracism in the Age of Obama ; Joseph Farah: Birther Extraordinaire ; Drinking Tea in Nashville ; Enter the False Prophet ; Glenn Beck and the New Populism -- pt. II Meet the Truthers -- 5.Why They Believe: A Psychological Field Guide to Conspiracies ; The Midlife Crisis Case ; The Failed Historian ; The Damaged Survivor ; The Cosmic Voyager ; The Clinical Conspiracist ; The Crank ; The Evangelical Doomsayer ; The Firebrand |
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6.The Church of Conspiracism ; Enter Satan ; The Devil's Legacy ; Lives of the Prophets ; The Cultic Milieu -- pt. III Accessories to Trutherdom -- 7.Democratizing Paranoia: How the Web Revolutionized Conspiracism ; The Legacy of Flight 800 ; Muckraking 2.0 ; Through the Internet's Looking Glass ; The Revolution Will Be Televised ; History Belongs to the YouTube Victors -- 8.Tin-Foil Mortarboards: Conspiracism's Ivy League Enablers ; Jacques Derrida's Hall of Mirrors ; Among the Antiracists ; Lessons from the Yale Law Journal -- 9.The Protocols Revisited: The New Face of Anti-Semitic Conspiracism ; Showdown in the Bowery ; Conspiracism's Hateful Sidekick ; A New Home on the Left ; The 9/11 Effect ; Jews Drift Right -- 10.Confronting Conspiracism ; A Pound of Cure ; An Ounce of Prevention. |
| Subject |
Conspiracy theories -- United States.
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Political culture -- United States.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017.
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| ISBN |
0062004816 (hardback) |
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9780062004819 (hardback) |
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