Trust No One? Conspiracy Theories in American History

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Selected Bibliography

  • Barkun, Michael. A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2003.
  • Camp, Gregory S. Selling Fear: Conspiracy Theories and End-Times Paranoia. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1997.
  • Davis, David Brion. The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present, Cornell Paperbacks. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1971.
  • ———. “Some Themes of Counter-Subversion: An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 47 (1960): 205-33.
  • Dean, Jodi. Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998.
  • Fenster, Mark. Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
  • Goldberg, Robert Alan. Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America. New Haven: Yale University, 2001.
    Hofstadter, Richard. The Paranoid Style in American Politics. New York: Knopf, 1965.
  • Hünemörder, Markus. The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.
  • Johnson, George. Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1983.
  • Knight, Peter. Conspiracy Culture - from the Kennedy Assassination to the X-Files. London: Routledge, 2000.
  • ———. Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
  • ———, ed. Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003.
  • Porter, Lindsay. Who Are the Illuminati? Exploring the Myth of the Secret Society. London: Collins & Brown, 2005.
  • Robertson, Pat. The New World Order. Dallas: Word Pub., 1991.
  • Rogin, Michael Paul. Ronald Reagan, the Movie and Other Episodes in Political Demonology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
  • Wood, Gordon. "Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series 39, no. 3 (1982): 401-41.