Blowing smoke: why the right keeps serving up whack-job fantasies about the plot to euthanize grandma, outlaw Christmas, and turn junior into a raging homosexual

Wolraich documents, dissects, and deconstructs the myths that underlie the conservative movement's growing reliance on persecution politics. It examines the psychological and sociological appeal of conspiracy theories as well as the history of these ideas from the Goldwater era through the camp...

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Main Author: Wolraich, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. Da Capo Press 2010
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Summary:Wolraich documents, dissects, and deconstructs the myths that underlie the conservative movement's growing reliance on persecution politics. It examines the psychological and sociological appeal of conspiracy theories as well as the history of these ideas from the Goldwater era through the campaigns against affirmative action and gun control to the contemporary era of talk shows, Christian activism, and anti-immigration sentiments
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-328) and index
Physical Description:XII, 339 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780306819193

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