num_pages: 368
description: From 9/11 conspiracy theorists and UFO obsessives to the cult of Ayn Rand and Birther crusaders America is suffering from an explosion in post-rationalist ideological movements. In Among the Truthers journalist Jonathan Kay offers a thoughtful and sobering look at how social networking and Web-based video sharing have engendered a flourishing of new conspiracism. Kay details the sociological profiles of ten brands of modern conspiracists - the Failed Historianthe Mid-Life Crack-Up the Damaged Survivor the Campus Revolutionary the Stoner the Clinical Case the Puzzle Solver the Christian Doomsayer the Cosmic Voyager and the Egomaniac - in a compelling exploration of Americas departure from reason and what it means for the very future of rational discourse as the nation steps further into the 21st century.
language: English
title: Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground
publisher: Harper