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on1385352528 |
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OCoLC |
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20230712150918.0 |
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230622s2023 nyu e b 000 0 eng |
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2022035654 |
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DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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FFL |
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FFL |
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OCO |
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FM0 |
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ACN |
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NFG |
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9780593299456 |
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(hardcover) |
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0593299450 |
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(hardcover) |
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(OCoLC)1385352528 |
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| Classification number |
366.0973 |
| Item number |
D551 |
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NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Dickey, Colin, |
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author. |
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212595 |
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| Title |
Under the eye of power : |
| Remainder of title |
how fear of secret societies shapes American democracy / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Colin Dickey. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[New York, NY] : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Viking, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[2023] |
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©2023 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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353 pages ; |
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24 cm |
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text |
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txt |
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unmediated |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland, a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, Illuminati and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives that defines the United States is simply this: secret groups are conspiring to pervert the will of the people and the rule of law. We'd like to assume these panics exist only at the fringes of society, or are unique features of an internet age. But history tells us, in fact, that they are woven into the fabric of American democracy. Cultural historian Colin Dickey has built a career studying how our most irrational beliefs reach the mainstream, why, and what they tell us about ourselves. In Under the Eye of Power, Dickey charts the history of America through its paranoias and fears of secret societies, while seeking to explain why so many people-including some of the most powerful people in the country-continue to subscribe to these conspiracy theories. Paradoxically, he finds, belief in the fantastical and conspiratorial can be more soothing than what we fear the most: the chaos and randomness of history, the rising and falling of fortunes in America, and the messiness of democracy. Only in seeing the cycle of this history, Dickey says, can we break it"-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-353). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction: The paranoid republic -- Part One: As above, so below -- The arch and the cenotaph -- The craft -- The dreadful fire -- "There is something earnest in all this, but the object is concealed" -- Part Two: Deep-laid schemes -- Mysteries of iniquity -- "Do not open your lips" -- In the convent's crypt -- Fresh from the loins of the people -- A piece of machinery, so to speak -- The mystic red -- Part Three: National indigestion -- Abraham Lincoln's secret confidant -- The man who threw the bomb -- A matter of trusts -- The world's enigma -- The (in)visible empire -- Part Four: Wonders of the invisible world -- Subliminals -- Truth drugs -- Purity of essence -- Beware the Siberian beetle -- Part five: Behind the hieroglyphic streets -- Networks -- The suburban uncanny -- Attack of the lizard people! -- The banality of evil -- Nothing is true, everything is permitted -- Epilogue: Citizens' commissions. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Secret societies |
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United States |
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History. |
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Conspiracy theories |
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United States |
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History. |
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228055 |
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United States |
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History. |
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24187 |
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