| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxiii, 340 pages ; 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. |
| Contents |
The truth movement and its ancestors. American conspiracism : a brief history ; Warrant for genocide, blueprint for paranoia ; False flags and lava lamps : the birth of a conspiracy movement ; "Show me the birth certificate" : conspiracism in the age of Obama -- Meet the truthers. Why they believe : a psychological field guide to conspiracists ; The church of conspiracism -- Accessories to trutherdom. Democratizing paranoia : how the web revolutionized conspiracism ; Tin-foil mortarboards : conspiracism's ivy league enablers ; The Protocols revisited : the new face of anti-Semitic conspiracism ; Confronting conspiracism. |
| 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 |
9780062004819 hardback $27.99 |
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0062004816 hardback |
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