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Among the truthers, a journey through America's growing conspiracist underground, Jonathan Kay

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Among the truthers, a journey through America's growing conspiracist underground, Jonathan Kay

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eng

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Among the truthers

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670475861

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Jonathan Kay

Sub title

a journey through America's growing conspiracist underground

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"--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

pt. I The Truth Movement and Its Ancestors -- 1. American Conspiracism: A Brief History ; Programmed for Conspiracy ; Populism and Paranoia: How Politics Shaped American Conspiracism ; The Men in Black: How Technology Shaped American Conspiracism ; The Emergence of "Flowchart Conspiracism" -- 2. Warrant for Genocide, Blueprint for Paranoia ; A Dark Fairy Tale ; Singularity ; Boundless Evil ; Incumbency ; Greed ; Cui Bono? ; Hypercompetence ; Covering Their Tracks -- 3. False Flags and Lava Lamps: The Birth of a Conspiracy Movement ; Ken Jenkins: Videographer, Flower Child, Truther ; Operation Northwoods and Its Legacy ; Project for the New American Century: A Modern Northwoods -- 4."Show Me the Birth Certificate": Conspiracism in the Age of Obama ; Joseph Farah: Birther Extraordinaire ; Drinking Tea in Nashville ; Enter the False Prophet ; Glenn Beck and the New Populism -- pt. II Meet the Truthers -- 5. Why They Believe: A Psychological Field Guide to Conspiracies ; The Midlife Crisis Case ; The Failed Historian ; The Damaged Survivor ; The Cosmic Voyager ; The Clinical Conspiracist ; The Crank ; The Evangelical Doomsayer ; The Firebrand6. The Church of Conspiracism ; Enter Satan ; The Devil's Legacy ; Lives of the Prophets ; The Cultic Milieu -- pt. III Accessories to Trutherdom -- 7. Democratizing Paranoia: How the Web Revolutionized Conspiracism ; The Legacy of Flight 800 ; Muckraking 2.0 ; Through the Internet's Looking Glass ; The Revolution Will Be Televised ; History Belongs to the YouTube Victors -- 8. Tin-Foil Mortarboards: Conspiracism's Ivy League Enablers ; Jacques Derrida's Hall of Mirrors ; Among the Antiracists ; Lessons from the Yale Law Journal -- 9. The Protocols Revisited: The New Face of Anti-Semitic Conspiracism ; Showdown in the Bowery ; Conspiracism's Hateful Sidekick ; A New Home on the Left ; The 9/11 Effect ; Jews Drift Right -- 10. Confronting Conspiracism ; A Pound of Cure ; An Ounce of Prevention

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