Conspiracy Theories & Secret Societies For Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Published: March 17, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780470184080
Subjects: Controversial Knowledge & Mysteries; History; History - General History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations; History / World; World - General; Freemasonry
First sentence: Napoleon said, “What is history but a fable agreed upon?” Of course, what nobody seems to remember is that Napoleon said a whole bunch of really questionable things. What’s wrong with it is that it implies that history is just a matter of opinion.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Part I: Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies: The Improbable Wedded to the Inscrutable.; title: Chapter 1: Everything You Know Is Wrong.; title: Chapter 2: Conspiracism and the Origin of Modern Conspiracy Theories.; title: Chapter 3: Building the Perfect Beast: Secret Societies through the Ages.; title: Part II: A Colossal Compilation of Conspiracy Theories.; title: Chapter 4: Everybody Knows About It: The World’s Most Common Conspiracy Theories.; title: Chapter 5: JFK and Other Presidents: The Conspiracies Behind the Guns.; title: Chapter 6: The World Ends Monday — Racial, Religious, and Apocalyptic Conspiracies.; title: Chapter 7: Not of This Earth: Innocent Pawns in an Intergalactic Imbroglio.; title: Chapter 8: Tracking the Evolution of the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories.; title: Part III: Secret Societies and Societies with Secrets.; title: Chapter 9: The Freemasons: The World’s Longest-Running Secret Society.; title: Chapter 10: Rosicrucians and the Evolution of Occult Secret Societies.; title: Chapter 11: The Illuminati: The Bavarian Boogeymen.; title: Chapter 12: Secret Societies of Terror and Death.; title: Chapter 13: Frolicsome Fraternalism and Nefarious Foes of Freedom.; title: Chapter 14: Thugs, Mugs, and Lugs: The Mafia and Other Underworld Societies.; title: Chapter 15: Banks and Super Committees: Knowing All, Owning All, Controlling All.; title: Part IV: The Part of Tens.; title: Chapter 16: Ten Conspiracy Theories That Skirt the Edge of Madness.; title: Chapter 17: Ten Conspiracies That Were Absolutely True.; title: Chapter 18: Ten Weirdest Secret Societies of All Time.; title: Index.