Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11
Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. They stood by and allowed the murders of 2,400 servicemen in Hawaii. Although paranoia has been a feature of the American scene since the birth of the Republic, in Real Enemies Kathryn Olmsted shows that it was only in the twentieth century that strange and unlikely conspiracy theories became central to American politics. In particular, she posits World War I as a critical turning point and shows that as the federal bureaucracy expanded, Americans grew more fearful of the government itself--the mili…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-975357-4
- EAN: 9780199753574
- Produktnummer: 13943267
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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Kathryn S. Olmsted is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis. She has written two previous books on secrecy in the U.S. government.
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