The Fear of Conspiracy

First published by Cornell in 1971, The Fear of Conspiracy brings together eighty-five speeches, documents, and writingsthe authors of which range from George Washington to Stokely Carmichaelthat illustrate the role played in American history by the fear of conspiracy and subversion. This book, documenting two centuries of conspiracy-mongering (1763-1966), highlights the American tendency to search for subversive enemies and to construct terrifying dangers from fragmentary and highly circumstantial evidence.