Conspiracies of conspiracies : how delusions have overrun America /
Konda, Thomas Milan,
Conspiracies of conspiracies : how delusions have overrun America / How delusions have overrun America. Thomas Milan Konda. - 442 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. Introduction.
Konda traces the America's obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the Republic up to our own anxious moment.
9780226585765 $30.00 022658576X
2018034310
Conspiracy theories.
History--Errors, inventions, etc.
Conspiracy theories--History.
AZ999 / .K65 2019
Conspiracies of conspiracies : how delusions have overrun America / How delusions have overrun America. Thomas Milan Konda. - 442 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. Introduction.
Konda traces the America's obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the Republic up to our own anxious moment.
9780226585765 $30.00 022658576X
2018034310
Conspiracy theories.
History--Errors, inventions, etc.
Conspiracy theories--History.
AZ999 / .K65 2019