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Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Hosts of the podcast Stuff They Don't Want You to Know, Ben Bowlin, Matthew Frederick, & Noel Brown discern conspiracy fact from fiction regarding 'stuff' the government doesn't want you to know. Conspiracies didn't always seem so clear and present. It used to be that people with tin-foil hats who were convinced of secret messages coming through the radio were easily disregarded as kooks and looney tunes. But these days, conspiracies feel alive and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
"As controversial as these questions might seem, there is no doubt about the influence hundreds of documented conspiracies have played in shaping the modern world. Conspiracies, simply put, occur when two or more parties work together to commit some unlawful or immoral act - and no nation's history has been left untouched by them. In more than 500 concise entries, The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories explains numerous true conspiracies...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Over the last year, as the Covid-19 pandemic spread worldwide, so too did the pro-Trump cabal known as QAnon. Following internet clues from a mysterious figure named "Q" - who has claimed to be a high-level government insider with a Q-level clearance - Will Sommer explains the genesis of QAnon, his experience covering its members online and in the real world, Q's lies and how they are spread, how Q has overshadowed politics, and what the nation must...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sarah's story begins as she's researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who taught her and her classmates to question everything--in the end, even the reality of historical atrocities. As she digs into the effects of his teachings, her life takes a turn into the fantastical when her wife, Marta, is notified that she's been investigated for sexual misconduct at the university where...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The truth may hurt-but the lies will kill us. In They Knew, New York Times best-selling author Sarah Kendzior explores the United States' "culture of conspiracy," putting forth a timely and unflinching argument: uncritical faith in broken institutions is as dangerous as false narratives peddled by propagandists. Conspiracy theories are on the rise because officials refuse to enforce accountability for real conspiracies. They Knew discusses conspiracy...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The liberal media loves to characterize the Obama years as free of scandal. They pretend this is true because virtually every office in the executive branch worked to withhold evidence of wrongdoing, silence witness testimony, destroy federal records, classify embarrassing information, and retaliate against truth tellers. Yet these same tight-lipped lifers leaked like a sieve once President Trump was sworn in, freely promoting the illusion that everything...
15) The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, big pharma, and the global war on democracy and public health
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
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. Kennedy believes that in early 2000 Fauci and Bill Gates cemented a partnership that would aim to control an increasingly profitable $60 billion global vaccine enterprise...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Infamous for its "black bloc," the tactic of dressing head-to-toe in black to commit crimes, antifa militants organize to destroy property, beat people, and intimidate their opposition into silence. This, antifa claims, is all done in the name of fighting "fascism." Ngo himself was beaten by Portland antifa militants and left with a traumatic brain injury in 2019. Here he exposes their far-left extremist ideology and shows how they are set on destroying...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 53
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Contains "The Oregon Trail," a collection of essays that first appeared in the "Knickerbocker Magazine," discussing Parkman's trip to Oregon in 1846, and "The Conspiracy of Pontiac," relating Ottawa leader Pontiac's attacks on British forts and settlements in the 1760s.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Ten years later, Sandy Hook has become a foundational story of how false conspiracy narratives and misinformation have gained traction in society. Some people insist it never occurred, or was staged by the federal government as a pretext for seizing Americans' firearms. They harass the victim's relatives and accuse...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A fast-paced, rollicking account of how paranoia and conspiracy theories have long been major elements within the GOP and how these forces came to triumph under Donald Trump, AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS offers readers a brisk, can-you-believe-this journey through this netherworld of far-right irrationality and explores its interactions with the GOP. It tells the tale of how the Republican Party has turned into a conspiracy cult, kicking ideology and policy...
Author
Publisher
Broadside, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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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