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Under the eye of power : how fear of secret societies shapes American democracy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickey, Colin (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Viking, [2023]
Subjects:
Secret societies > United States > History.
Conspiracy theories > United States > History.
United States > History.
Conspiracy theories.
Secret societies.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The paranoid republic
  • Part One: As above, so below
  • The arch and the cenotaph
  • The craft
  • The dreadful fire
  • "There is something earnest in all this, but the object is concealed"
  • Part Two: Deep-laid schemes
  • Mysteries of iniquity
  • "Do not open your lips"
  • In the convent's crypt
  • Fresh from the loins of the people
  • A piece of machinery, so to speak
  • The mystic red
  • Part Three: National indigestion
  • Abraham Lincoln's secret confidant
  • The man who threw the bomb
  • A matter of trusts
  • The world's enigma
  • The (in)visible empire
  • Part Four: Wonders of the invisible world
  • Subliminals
  • Truth drugs
  • Purity of essence
  • Beware the Siberian beetle
  • Part five: Behind the hieroglyphic streets
  • Networks
  • The suburban uncanny
  • Attack of the lizard people!
  • The banality of evil
  • Nothing is true, everything is permitted
  • Epilogue: Citizens' commissions.