TY  - BOOK
AU  - Konda,Thomas Milan
TI  - Conspiracies of conspiracies: how delusions have overrun America 
SN  - 9780226585765
AV  - AZ999 .K65 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Conspiracy theories
KW  - History
KW  - Errors, inventions, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - Konda traces the America's obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the Republic up to our own anxious moment
ER  -