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Chargement... Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in Americapar Mark Jacobson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I’ve had an oblique fascination with what I’ve heard about Behold a Pale Horse for years but I don’t think I could bring myself to actually submit to its paranoiac right-wing insanity by actually reading it. This book is the perfect ten-foot pole for this dilemma. An objective view of William Cooper, his life and influence on American culture. I found it absolutely fascinating. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
We are living in a time of unprecedented distrust in America... Faith in the government is at an all-time low, and political groups on both sides of the aisle are able to tout preposterous conspiracy theories as gospel, without much opposition. "Fake news" is the order of the day. This book is about a man to whom all of it points, the greatest conspiracist of this generation and a man you may not have heard of. A former U.S. naval intelligence worker, Milton William Cooper published his manifesto Behold a Pale Horse in 1991. Since then it has gone on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, becoming the number-one bestseller in the American prison system. According to Behold a Pale Horse, JFK was assassinated--because he was about to reveal that extraterrestrials were about to take over the earth--by his driver, an alien himself; AIDS is a government conspiracy to decrease the population of blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals; and the Illuminati are secretly involved with the U.S. government to manage relationships with extraterrestrials. Cooper died in a shootout with Apache County police in 2001, one month after September 11, in the year in which he had predicted catastrophe. In Pale Horse Rider, journalist Mark Jacobson not only tells the story of Cooper's fascinating life but also provides the social and political context for American paranoia. Indeed, with the present NSA situation and countless other shadowy government dealings often in the news, aren't we right to suspect that things may not be as they seem? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The author managed to make the life of someone on the fringe interesting whole at the same time showing how a small time book reached millions of people and influenced at least one music scene.
Definitely a missy read for people interested in conspiracy theories regardless of whether you believe them or not. ( )