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  Title

  Among the truthers : a journey through America's growing conspiracist underground 1st ed.

  Author

  Kay, Jonathan, 1968-  

  Publisher:

  Harper,

  Pub date:

  c2011.

  Pages:

  xxiii, 340 p. ;

  ISBN:

  9780062004819

  Item info:

  1 copy available at KETCHIKAN PUBLIC LIBRARY.
  

  • 9780062004819
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  Among the truthers : a journey through America's growing conspiracist underground 1st ed.
  Kay, Jonathan, 1968-
  

  Personal Author:

  Kay, Jonathan, 1968-

  Title:

  Among the truthers : a journey through America's growing conspiracist underground / Jonathan Kay.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Harper, c2011.

  Physical description:

  xxiii, 340 p. ; 24 cm.

  General Note:

  Includes index.

  Contents:

  Machine generated contents note: Don't Call Them "Nutbars" -- Some Caveats -- 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 Firebrand -- 6.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.

  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.

  Held by:

  PL

  Subject term:

  Conspiracy theories--United States.

  Subject term:

  Political culture--United States.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Politics and government--2009-2017.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Civilization.