Real Enermies Cons Theo Americ Democ C

by Kathryn S. Olmsted

Book Overview

Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. They stood by and allowed the murders of 2,400 servicemen in Hawaii. Although paranoia has been a feature of the American scene since the birth of the Republic, in Real Enemies Kathryn Olmsted shows that it was only in the twentieth century that strange and unlikely conspiracy theories became central to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195183533
• ISBN13: 9780195183535
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"