Conspiracy rising conspiracy thinking and American public life
A 2006 Scripps Howard poll found that 36 percent of Americans believed that the American government either participated in the September 11th, 2001, attacks or knew about them and did nothing to stop them. But this is far from the only event in U.S. history where a resolute portion of the population...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Praeger
c2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3119221x*spi |
| Sumario: | A 2006 Scripps Howard poll found that 36 percent of Americans believed that the American government either participated in the September 11th, 2001, attacks or knew about them and did nothing to stop them. But this is far from the only event in U.S. history where a resolute portion of the population sees the dark hand of conspiracy manipulating historical events. "This book challenges both conspiratorial ideas and those who dismiss them as trivial ... [I]t considers conspiratorial belief systems as inherently meaningful, not as true assessments of reality, but instead as representations of a community's experiences and concerns"--Introd. |
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| Descripción Física: | xiv, 168 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [151]-164) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780313350146 |
