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  • Conspiracy Theory in America

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  • By: Lance deHaven-Smith
  • Narrated by: Bobby Dobbs
  • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service - and possibly even senior government officials - were also involved. Why has suspicion of criminal wrongdoing at the highest levels of government been rejected out-of-hand as paranoid thinking akin to superstition?

Lance deHaven-Smith asks tough questions and connects the dots among five decades' worth of suspicious events, including the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, the attempted assassinations of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan, the crimes of Watergate, the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages deal, the disputed presidential elections of 2000 and 2004, the major defense failure of 9/11, and the subsequent anthrax letter attacks.

Sure to spark intense debate about the truthfulness and trustworthiness of our government, Conspiracy Theory in America offers a powerful reminder that a suspicious, even radically suspicious, attitude toward government is crucial to maintaining our democracy.
©2013 University of Texas Press (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks
Media Studies Political Science United States Assassin Espionage American Foreign Policy
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"DeHaven-Smith offers an intriguing take on the origins and implications of conspiracy theories and the paranoid mindset itself in this accessible academic study." ( Publisher's Weekly)
" Conspiracy Theory in America is an excellent presentation, logical and well documented." (James Richard Bailey, FiredogLake.com)

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Highly enlightening ...

A great book for anybody wanting to see the wider context of political events and the way these events are manipulated through linguistics, deflection and misdirection. It reads well and it is well organized. 5 stars

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