Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America
ISBN: 9781501713019
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Anthropology ; Language & Literature;

Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political...


Timothy Melley is Associate Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio.

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