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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-58576-5 (cloth)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-58593-2 (e-book)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226585932.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Konda, Thomas Milan, author.

Title: Conspiracies of conspiracies : how delusions have overrun America / Thomas

Milan Konda.

Description: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2019. | Includes

bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018034310 | ISBN 9780226585765 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN

80226585932 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Conspiracy theories. | History—Errors, inventions, etc.

Classification: LCC AZ999 .K65 2019 | DDC 001.9—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018034310

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper).