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Conspiracy Rising: Conspiracy Thinking and American Public Life

Conspiracy Rising: Conspiracy Thinking and American Public Life

Lee, Martha

Hardcover

SpeculationGeneral Political ScienceGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0313350132
ISBN13: 9780313350139
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jun 30 2011
Pages: 184
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This book offers a thoughtful analysis of how and why conspiracy thinking has become a popular mode of political discourse in the United States.

How did conspiracy thinking become such a significant and surprisingly widely accepted form of political thinking in the United States? What compels people to respond to devastating, unpredictable events--terrorist acts, wars, natural disasters, economic upheavals--with the conviction that nothing is a coincidence, nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected?

Conspiracy Rising: Conspiracy Thinking and American Public Life argues that while outlandish paranoid theories themselves may seem nonsensical, the thread of conspiracy thinking throughout American history is a both a byproduct of our democratic form of government and a very real threat to it. From the Illuminati, the Knights Templar, and the Freemasons to the government hiding aliens and faking the moon landing; from the New World Order to the Obama Birthers, the book explores the enduring popularity of a number of American conspiracy theories, showing how the conspiracy hysteria that may provoke disdain and apathy in the general public, can become a source of dangerous extremism.

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