Conspiracy of Interests

Conspiracy of Interests
Author: Laurence M. Hauptman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780815605478

As New York State grew in the period between the American revolution and the mid-19th century, the Iroquois Indians were gradually displaced and forced to move West. Drawing on a variety of sources - memoirs, tribal records, petitions, letters - this study tells their story.

Conspiracy of One

Conspiracy of One
Author: Jim Moore
Publisher: Summit Publishing Group
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN:

A chronicle of one man's investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy and his conclusion.

LBJ and Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy

LBJ and Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy
Author: Joseph P. Farrell
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2011-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1935487434

Best-selling, Oxford-educated investigative author Joseph P. Farrell takes on the Kennedy assassination and the involvement of Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Texas "machine” that he controlled. Farrell says that a coalescence of interests in the military industrial complex, the CIA, and Lyndon Baines Johnson's powerful and corrupt political machine in Texas led to the events culminating in the assassination of JFK. Without the help of the Dallas police chief and others of the Texas underworld, including Jack Ruby, the Kennedy assassination could not have taken place. Farrell analyzes the data as only he can, and comes to some astonishing conclusions. Chapters include: Oswald, the FBI, and the CIA: Hoover's Concern of a Second Oswald; Oswald and the Anti-Castro Cubans; The Mafia; Hoover, Johnson, and the Mob; The FBI, the Secret Service, Hoover, and Johnson; The CIA and "Murder Incorporated”; Ruby's Bizarre Behavior; The French Connection and Permindex; Big Oil; The Military; Disturbing Datasets, Doppelgängers, Duplicates and Discrepancies; Two Caskets, Two (or was that Three?) Ambulances, One Body: The Case of David S. Lifton; Two (or is that Three?) Faces of Oswald; Too Many (or Was That Too Few?) Bullets; Too Many Films, with Too Many, or Too Few, Frames; The Dead Witnesses: Jack Zangretti, Maurice Brooks Gatlin, John Garret "Gary” Underhill, Guy F. Bannister, Jr., Mary Pinchot Meyer, Rose Cheramie, Dorothy Mae Killgallen, Congressman Hale Boggs; The Alchemy of the Assassination: Ritual Magic and Murder, Masonic Symbolism, and the Darkest Players in the Death of JFK; LBJ and the Planning of the Texas Trip; LBJ: A Study in Character, Connections, and Cabals; LBJ and the Aftermath: Accessory After the Fact; The Requirements of Coups D'État; more.

A Culture of Conspiracy

A Culture of Conspiracy
Author: Michael Barkun
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780520248120

Unravelling the genealogies and permutations of conspiracist worldviews, this work shows how this web of urban legends has spread among sub-cultures on the Internet and through mass media, and how this phenomenon relates to larger changes in American culture.

Political Conspiracies in America

Political Conspiracies in America
Author: Donald T. Critchlow
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2008-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253027837

Conspiracy theories have been a part of the American experience since colonial times. There is a rich literature on conspiracies involving, among others, Masons, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, financiers, Communists, and internationalists. Although many conspiracy theories appear irrational, an exaggerated fear of a conspiracy sometimes proves to be well founded. This anthology provides students with documents relating to some of the more important and interesting conspiracy theories in American history and politics, some based on reality, many chiefly on paranoia. It provides a fascinating look at a persistent and at times troubling aspect of democratic society.

Greatest Conspiracy Theories

Greatest Conspiracy Theories
Author: IntroBooks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2019-12-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781678993481

As you know, there are many of such events which became part of those conspiracies that many people believe in and most of the people don't. Well, what do you think people should believe in these? At first everyone does actually because obviously it interests you so much but most of them get verified as wrong at the end, not all of them but most of them. Now, here what you going to read is about what the conspiracy theory is and how many of them are really out there in the world.

Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy Theories
Author: Quassim Cassam
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2019-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1509535845

9/11 was an inside job. The Holocaust is a myth promoted to serve Jewish interests. The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a false flag operation. Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government. These are all conspiracy theories. A glance online or at bestseller lists reveals how popular some of them are. Even if there is plenty of evidence to disprove them, people persist in propagating them. Why? Philosopher Quassim Cassam explains how conspiracy theories are different from ordinary theories about conspiracies. He argues that conspiracy theories are forms of propaganda and their function is to promote a political agenda. Although conspiracy theories are sometimes defended on the grounds that they uncover evidence of bad behaviour by political leaders, they do much more harm than good, with some resulting in the deaths of large numbers of people. There can be no clearer indication that something has gone wrong with our intellectual and political culture than the fact that conspiracy theories have become mainstream. When they are dangerous, we cannot afford to ignore them. At the same time, refuting them by rational argument is difficult because conspiracy theorists discount or reject evidence that disproves their theories. As conspiracy theories are so often smokescreens for political ends, we need to come up with political as well as intellectual responses if we are to have any hope of defeating them.

Empire of Conspiracy

Empire of Conspiracy
Author: Timothy Melley
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501713000

Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and government plots. At the heart of these developments, he believes, lies a widespread sense of crisis in the way Americans think about human autonomy and individuality. Nothing reveals this crisis more than the remarkably consistent form of expression that Melley calls "agency panic"—an intense fear that individuals can be shaped or controlled by powerful external forces. Drawing on a broad range of forms that manifest this fear—including fiction, film, television, sociology, political writing, self-help literature, and cultural theory—Melley provides a new understanding of the relation between postwar American literature, popular culture, and cultural theory. Empire of Conspiracy offers insightful new readings of texts ranging from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to the Unabomber Manifesto, from Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders to recent addiction discourse, and from the "stalker" novels of Margaret Atwood and Diane Johnson to the conspiracy fictions of Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs, Don DeLillo, and Kathy Acker. Throughout, Melley finds recurrent anxieties about the power of large organizations to control human beings. These fears, he contends, indicate the continuing appeal of a form of individualism that is no longer wholly accurate or useful, but that still underpins a national fantasy of freedom from social control.