Under the eye of power how fear of secret societies shapes American democracy
"From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland, a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Sal...
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Viking,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The paranoid republic
- Part one: As above, so below. The arch and the cenotaph
- The craft
- The dreadful fire
- "There is something earnest in all this, but the object is concealed"
- Part two: Deep-laid schemes. Mysteries of iniquity
- "Do not open your lips"
- In the convent's crypt
- Fresh from the loins of the people
- A piece of machinery, so to speak
- The mystic red
- Part three: National indigestion. Abraham Lincoln's secret confidant
- The man who threw the bomb
- A matter of trusts
- The world's enigma
- The (in)visible empire
- Part four: Wonders of the invisible world. Subliminals
- Truth drugs
- Purity of essence
- Beware the Siberian beetle
- Part five: Behind the hieroglyphic streets. Networks
- The suburban uncanny
- Attack of the lizard people!
- The banality of evil
- Nothing is true, everything is permitted
- Epilogue: Citizens' commissions.
