Among the Truthers

Contents

Introduction: Stumbling on the Truthers

Part I - The Truth Movement and Its Ancestors

Chapter One - American Conspiracism: A Brief History

Chapter Two - Warrant for Genocide, Blueprint for Paranoia

Chapter Three - False Flags and Lava Lamps: The Birth of a Conspiracy Movement

Chapter Four - “Show Me the Birth Certificate”: Conspiracism in the Age of Obama

Part II - Meet the Truthers

Chapter Five - Why They Believe: A Psychological Field Guide to Conspiracists

Chapter Six - The Church of Conspiracism

Part III - Accessories to Trutherdom

Chapter Seven - Democratizing Paranoia: How the Web Revolutionized Conspiracism

Chapter Eight - Tin-Foil Mortarboards: Conspiracism’s Ivy League Enablers

Chapter Nine - The Protocols Revisited: The New Face of Anti-Semitic Conspiracism

Chapter Ten - Confronting Conspiracism

Acknowledgments

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