| The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present Contributor(s): Davis, David Brion (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801491134 ISBN-13: 9780801491139 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Social Science | Conspiracy Theories - Political Science | Propaganda |
| Dewey: 301.630 |
| LCCN: 70012775 |
| Series: Cornell Paperbacks |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.56" W x 8.51" (1.14 lbs) 408 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Davis, David Brion: - David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, where he is founder and director emeritus of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. This was the first book of Davis's long and distinguished career. He received the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his second book, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, which was also originally published by Cornell University Press. His 2014 book The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction. |