Received in the mail on Friday, by a fellow EotAW blogger-person:
Required for my spring course on “Conspiracy theories in American History.”
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6 comments
January 15, 2012 at 7:36 am
DanielDaniel
This post calls for a Community reference:
January 15, 2012 at 9:19 am
Kathy
Hey, Silbey, that’s very nice. Thanks! I’m not really a blogger-person anymore. But, you know, maybe someday….
January 15, 2012 at 10:04 am
Geoffrey Day
What’s on the rest of the syllabus?
January 15, 2012 at 10:59 am
silbey
In addition to Kathy’s book, I’m using the following:
Davis, David Brion. The Fear of Conspiracy : Images of Un-American Subversion From the Revolution to the Present. Vol. Cornell paperbacks ; CP-113, Ithaca ; London: Cornell University Press, 1972.
Barkun, Michael. A Culture of Conspiracy : Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Vol. Comparative studies in religion and society ; 15, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Hofstadter, Richard, and Sean. Wilentz. The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays. 1st Vintage Books ed. ed. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.
Also a fair number of articles, which I haven’t quite settled on yet.
January 16, 2012 at 7:55 am
kevin
You bought the book? Come on, man! That’s just what they want you to do!
January 20, 2012 at 3:40 pm
John Haas
Huh. I’m teaching a class I call “Witches, Masons, and Illuminati: Conspiracy Theories in American History.” First time ever, I think, a 300-level class of mine has filled all the way up. I guess we should all send a thank-you note to the birthers . . .