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Conspiracies of conspiracies : how delusions have overrun America / Thomas Milan Konda.

By: Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2019Description: 442 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226585765
  • 022658576X
Other title:
  • How delusions have overrun America
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • AZ999 .K65 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.
Summary: Konda traces the America's obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the Republic up to our own anxious moment.

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.

Konda traces the America's obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the Republic up to our own anxious moment.

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