The Fear Of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present

by David Brion Davis

2020-12-29 21:28:24

First published by Cornell in 1971, The Fear of Conspiracy brings together eighty-five speeches, documents, and writings?the authors of which range from George Washington to Stokely Carmichael?that illustrate the role played in American history by th... Read more

First published by Cornell in 1971, The Fear of Conspiracy brings together eighty-five speeches, documents, and writings?the authors of which range from George Washington to Stokely Carmichael?that illustrate the role played in American history by the fear of conspiracy and subversion. This book, documenting two centuries of conspiracy-mongering (1763-1966), highlights the American tendency to search for subversive enemies and to construct terrifying dangers from fragmentary and highly circumstantial evidence.

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.27 in
Print pages408
PublisherCornell University Press
Publication date February 13, 2008
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780801491139
David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. His work has won the Pulitzer Prize...

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