Brotherton, Rob
Summary: "In Suspicious Minds, Rob Brotherton explores the history and consequences of conspiracism, and delves into the research that offers insights into why so many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and unproveable conspiracy theories. They resonate with some of our brain's built-in quirks and foibles, and tap into some of our deepest desires, fears, and assumptions about the world,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2015
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Summary: American society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, but with the election of Donald Trump, previously outlandish ideas suddenly attained legitimacy. Trump himself is a conspiracy enthusiast: from his claim that global warming is a Chinese hoax to the accusations of “fake news,” he has fanned the flames of suspicion. But it was not by the power of one man alone that these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.9 MERBloom, Mia
Summary: "In January 2021, thousands descended on the U.S. Capitol to aid President Donald Trump in combating a shadowy cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Two women died that day. They, like the millions of Americans who believe that a mysterious insider knownas "Q" is exposing a vast deep-state conspiracy, were members of "pastel QAnon," a subgroup of mostly middle-class educated women that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 BLODickey, Colin
Summary: "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 Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, Illuminati and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 366.0973 DICCook, Jesselyn
Summary: A story of five families shattered by pervasive conspiracy theories and the aftermath of their choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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Summary: A journalist who specializes in conspiracy theories draws on interviews with QAnon converts and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics to explain the origin and growth of the movement, its embrace by right-wing media and politicians, and why it is important to understand it rather than mock it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 ROTFleming, Candace
Summary: "In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the government was covering up the evidence in a massive conspiracy. But what really happened at Roswell? The infamous "crash from outer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.942 FLEButterworth, Alex.
Summary: "The World That Never Was" is a thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of several violent revolutionaries and the secret police who pursued them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010
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Summary: "Now that every detail and argument set forth in the #1 New York Times bestseller The Russia Hoax has been borne out by the Mueller report, the author is back with a hard-hitting, well-reasoned evisceration of what may be the dirtiest trick in political history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 JARWilliamson, Elizabeth
Summary: "Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson's landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting and the work by a group of Sandy Hook parents to defend themselves and the truth of their children's fate against the frenzied distortions of online deniers and conspiracy theorists"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 WILBland, Celia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1995
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Summary: "America is awash with alleged conspiracies. It seems like today, no one with a cell phone escapes the vortex of skepticism, cynicism, paranoia, and fear that occupy our thoughts almost constantly. Seeking out valid answers in this cacophony can be confusing and deeply frustrating. In this book, historian Michael D. Gambone provides case studies of popular conspiracy theories in America from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 GAMRothschild, Mike.
Summary: "In 2018 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene took to social media to share her suspicions that the California wildfires were started by 'space solar generators' which were funded by powerful, mysterious backers. Instantly, thousands of people rallied around her, blaming the fires on "Jewish space lasers" and, ultimately, the Rothschild family. For more than 200 years, the name "Rothschild" has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2023
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Summary: Presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to the War on Terror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: In The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance, the most persecuted man on Earth, Alex Jones, gives you the good news about the failing plans of the globalists to control humanity.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2023
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Summary: Book Jacket: On June 2, 1763, the Ojibwe captured Michigan's Fort Michilimackinac from the British. Ojibwe warriors from villages on Mackinac Island and along the Cheboygan River had surprised the unsuspecting garrison while playing a game of baggatiway. On the heels of the capture, Odawa from nearby L'Arbre Croche arrived to rescue British prisoners, setting into motion a complicated series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.27 WIDKennedy, Robert Francis
Summary: "As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci dispenses $6.1 billion in annual taxpayer-provided funding for scientific research, allowing him to dictate the subject, content, and outcome of scientific health research across the globe. Fauci uses the financial clout at his disposal to wield extraordinary influence over hospitals,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2021
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Summary: An account, including interviews with former members and people who have been attacked, of the history and tactics of the anti-fascist group Antifa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 NGOShermer, Michael
Summary: "The author discusses how we should think about conspiracy theories, who believes them and why, which conspiracy theories are likely to be true or false and what criteria we can use to assess them, and what we should do to combat dangerous conspiracism and reestablish trust in our democratic institutions, in the media, and in one another"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2022
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Summary: "As the cofounder of NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation, Steven Brill has observed the rise of fake news from a front-row seat. In The Death of Truth, with startling, often terrifying clarity, he explains how we got here—and how we can get back to a world where truth matters.None of this—conspiracy theories embraced, expertise ridiculed, empirical evidence ignored—has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: The 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud orchestrated by the Democratic Party. That’s not just an accusation; it’s now, thanks to bestselling author and investigative journalist Dinesh D’Souza, an established fact. With eyewitness testimony and the pinpoint precision and analytic sophistication of the forensic technique of geotracking, D’Souza demonstrates how an already corrupt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ECKKonda, Thomas Milan
Summary: In this sweeping book, Thomas Milan Konda traces the country’s obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the republic to our own anxious moment. Conspiracies of Conspiracies details centuries of sinister speculations—from antisemitism and anti-Catholicism to UFOs and reptilian humanoids—and their often incendiary outcomes. Rather than simply rehashing the surface...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2019