Asking tough questions and connecting the dots across decades of suspicious events, from the Kennedy assassinations to 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, this book raises crucial questions about the consequences of Americansâ unwillingness to suspect high gove
Asking tough questions and connecting the dots across decades of suspicious events, from the Kennedy assassinations to 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, this book raises crucial questions about the consequences of Americansâ unwillingness to suspect high gove
1. List of Illustrations and Tables 2. Acknowledgments 3. Introduction: High-Crime Blind * A Curious History * A Flawed and Un-American Label * Naming the Taboo Topic * Perceptual Silos * Causes and Consequences * The CIA’s Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy * The Rest of the Book 4. Chapter 1: The Conspiracy-Theory Label * Perspectives on Conspiracy Beliefs * The Assassination of President Kennedy * The Single-Bullet (or “Magic-Bullet”) Theory * The Assumption Someone Would Talk * Flawed Definitions * The Term’s Meaning in Practice * A SCAD Hypothesis * Reforms after President Kennedy’s Assassination 5. Chapter 2: The American Tradition of Conspiracy Belief * The Political Science of the Founders * Conspiracy Theories of the Founders * The Sedition Act of 1798 and the “Burr Conspiracy” * The Dialectic of Corruption and Reform * Conspiracy Charges at Nuremberg * How Conspiracy Deniers Misread History 6. Chapter 3: Conspiracy Denial in the Social Sciences * The Transformation of U.S. Social Science * Philosophical Perspectives on Conspiracy Theory * The Conspiracy Theories of Charles Beard * Popper’s Critique of the "Conspiracy Theory of Society” * Strauss on “Noble Lies” and “Salutary Myths” * American Neoconservatism 7. Chapter 4: The Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy * Subtle Speech * Decoding the Dispatch * CIA “Collaborator” John P. Roche * Popularization, Association, Connotation 8. Chapter 5: State Crimes against Democracy * Scientific Conceptualization * The Victim’s Perspective * SCAD Conceptualization * Searching for Novel Facts in 9/11 9. Chapter 6: Restoring American Democracy * America’s Family Secrets * Reform Where Law and Politics Meet * Selective Totalitarianism * The Struggle Ahead * A Simple Proposal for Reform 10. Appendix: CIA Dispatch 1035-960 11. Tables 12. Notes 13. Bibliography 14. Index
1. List of Illustrations and Tables 2. Acknowledgments 3. Introduction: High-Crime Blind * A Curious History * A Flawed and Un-American Label * Naming the Taboo Topic * Perceptual Silos * Causes and Consequences * The CIA’s Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy * The Rest of the Book 4. Chapter 1: The Conspiracy-Theory Label * Perspectives on Conspiracy Beliefs * The Assassination of President Kennedy * The Single-Bullet (or “Magic-Bullet”) Theory * The Assumption Someone Would Talk * Flawed Definitions * The Term’s Meaning in Practice * A SCAD Hypothesis * Reforms after President Kennedy’s Assassination 5. Chapter 2: The American Tradition of Conspiracy Belief * The Political Science of the Founders * Conspiracy Theories of the Founders * The Sedition Act of 1798 and the “Burr Conspiracy” * The Dialectic of Corruption and Reform * Conspiracy Charges at Nuremberg * How Conspiracy Deniers Misread History 6. Chapter 3: Conspiracy Denial in the Social Sciences * The Transformation of U.S. Social Science * Philosophical Perspectives on Conspiracy Theory * The Conspiracy Theories of Charles Beard * Popper’s Critique of the "Conspiracy Theory of Society” * Strauss on “Noble Lies” and “Salutary Myths” * American Neoconservatism 7. Chapter 4: The Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy * Subtle Speech * Decoding the Dispatch * CIA “Collaborator” John P. Roche * Popularization, Association, Connotation 8. Chapter 5: State Crimes against Democracy * Scientific Conceptualization * The Victim’s Perspective * SCAD Conceptualization * Searching for Novel Facts in 9/11 9. Chapter 6: Restoring American Democracy * America’s Family Secrets * Reform Where Law and Politics Meet * Selective Totalitarianism * The Struggle Ahead * A Simple Proposal for Reform 10. Appendix: CIA Dispatch 1035-960 11. Tables 12. Notes 13. Bibliography 14. Index
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