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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Stumbling on the Truthers | |
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| Don't Call Them �Nutbars� | |
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| Some Caveats | |
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| The Truth Movement and Its Ancestors | |
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| American Conspiracism: A Brief History | |
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| Programmed for Conspiracy | |
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| Populism and Paranoia: How Politics Shaped American Conspiracism | |
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| The Men in Black: How Technology Shaped American Conspiracism | |
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| The Emergence of �Flowchart Conspiracism� | |
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| Warrant for Genocide, Blueprint for Paranoia | |
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| A Dark Fairy Tale | |
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| Singularity | |
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| Boundless Evil | |
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| Incumbency | |
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| Greed | |
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| Cui Bono? | |
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| Hypercompetence | |
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| Covering Their Tracks | |
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| False Flags and Lava Lamps: The Birth of a Conspiracy Movement | |
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| Ken Jenkins: Videographer, Flower Child, Truther | |
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| Operation Northwoods and Its Legacy | |
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| Project for the New American Century: A Modern Northwoods | |
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| �Show Me the Birth Certificate�: Conspiracism in the Age of Obama | |
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| Joseph Farah: Birther Extraordinaire | |
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| Drinking Tea in Nashville | |
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| Enter the False Prophet | |
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| Glenn Beck and the New Populism | |
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| Meet the Truthers | |
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| Why They Believe: A Psychological Field Guide to Conspiracists | |
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| The Midlife Crisis Case | |
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| The Failed Historian | |
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| The Damaged Survivor | |
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| The Cosmic Voyager | |
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| The Clinical Conspiracist | |
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| The Crank | |
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| The Evangelical Doomsayer | |
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| The Firebrand | |
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| The Church of Conspiracism | |
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| Enter Satan | |
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| The Devil's Legacy | |
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| Lives of the Prophets | |
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| The Cultic Milieu | |
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| Accessories to Trutherdom | |
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| Democratizing Paranoia: How the Web Revolutionized Conspiracism | |
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| The Legacy of Flight 800 | |
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| Muckraking 2.0 | |
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| Through the Internet's Looking Glass | |
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| The Revolution Will Be Televised | |
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| History Belongs to the YouTube Victors | |
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| Tin-Foil Mortarboards: Conspiracism's Ivy League Enablers | |
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| Jacques Derrida's Hall of Mirrors | |
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| Among the Antiracists | |
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| Lessons from the Yale Law Journal | |
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| The Protocols Revisited: The New Face of Anti-Semitic Conspiracism | |
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| Showdown in the Bowery | |
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| Conspiracism's Hateful Sidekick | |
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| A New Home on the Left | |
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| The 9/11 Effect | |
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| Jews Drift Right | |
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| Confronting Conspiracism | |
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| A Pound of Cure | |
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| An Ounce of Prevention | |
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| Index | |