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

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David Brion Davis
Cornell University Press, 1971 - 369 pages

First published by Cornell in 1971, The Fear of Conspiracy brings together eighty-five speeches, documents, and writings--the authors of which range from George Washington to Stokely Carmichael--that 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.

 

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Conspiracy in the American Revolution 17631783
23
Ideological Responses to the French Revolution 17951802
35
A Warning to Harvard Seniors against World
49
New Threats to Internal Security 18251860
66
Popery Compared with Mormonism 1854
100
The Widening Conflict over Slavery 18351865
102
A Northern Party Is Seeking to Convert
144
World 1892
192
A Study in Appearances and Realities 1948
258
1936
273
spiracy 1949
289
Communist America Must It Be? 1960
315
The Need for Black
324
The Truth about Vietnam 1967
336
Who Killed Kennedy? 1964
349
The Ku Klux Klan as a Subversive Conspiratorial
355

Responses to International Involvement and Ethnic Pluralism
205
Foremost Problem 1920
228
Afterword
361
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David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University. He is the winner of several national awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, and the author several books including Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, winner of the 2007 Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.

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