Among the Truthers - A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground
✍ Scribed by Kay, Jonathan
- Book ID
- 106980998
- Publisher
- HarperCollins US
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
From left-wing 9/11 conspiracy theorists to right-wing Obama-hating "birthers"--a sobering, eyewitness look at how America's marketplace of ideas is fracturing into a multitude of tiny, radicalized boutiques--each peddling its own brand of paranoia
Throughout most of our nation's history, the United States has been bound together by a shared worldview. But the 9/11 terrorist attacks opened a rift in the collective national psyche: Increasingly, Americans are abandoning reality and retreating to Internet-based fantasy worlds conjured into existence out of our own fears and prejudices.
The most disturbing symptom of this trend is the 9/11 Truth movement, whose members believe that Bush administration officials engineered the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a pretext to launch wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But these "Truthers" are merely one segment of a vast conspiracist subculture that includes many other groups: anti-Obama extremists who believe their...