The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present

About this book

First published by Cornell in 1971 The Fear of Conspiracy brings together eighty-five speeches documents and writingsthe authors of which range from George Washington to Stokely Carmichaelthat illustrate the role played in American history by the fear of conspiracy and subversion. This book documenting two centuries of conspiracy-mongering (1763-1966) highlights the American tendency to search for subversive enemies and to construct terrifying dangers from fragmentary and highly circumstantial evidence.