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Title: Conspiracy : How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From by Daniel Pipes ISBN: 0-684-87111-4 Publisher: Touchstone Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.26 (19 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Useful, but flawed by bias
Comment: I used this book for an undergraduate seminar on conspiracy. It is most useful for providing backgorund on some major, persistent conspriacy theory, explaining why, for example, Jews and Masons are frequently targeted. But there are some big problems too. For example, how can you review the history of conspiracies and leave out the theme of witch hunts? It does pose a problem for Pipes, who prefers to believe conspiracy theories were more predominant after the French Revolution. Pipes fails to realize how important gender is in conspiracy theory.
Some sweeping generalizations are made. Pipes confounds conspiracy theory with radical critiques of the elitist school of thought. He can be quite inconsistent. Winston Churhill is said not to hve been contaminated by his conspiracy theories, but Jesse Jackson is. Leninism is not merely examined for elements of conspiratorial thinking, it's conspiratorial at its heart.
Not a bad book in many repects, but beware the rightist biases.
Dan Hellinger, Webster University
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read...
Comment: Pipes book is a fair-minded but clear-headed review of the sources and motives of conspiratist thinking and its long-standing appeal. While many have rightly discerned the negative impact of communism, how many millions of deaths this century can be attributed to two conspiratists--Stalin and Hitler--who actually came to power and position to "do something" about the conspiracies they believed in? With piercing clarity, Pipes describes the motives and paranoia that led to massive genocide and that was sourced directly from paranoid epistemology. If you are interested in Conspiracy Theories or know someone that is, buy this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Pipes is anti-Muslim and a member of CFR
Comment: This book is typical of the genre that attempts to label all political critics as "anti-semitic" or "extremist". However, Pipes is a member of an organization that many contend is a part of the globalist or one-world-order movement (i.e., Council on Foreign Relations). He was recently named by the Bush administration to an organization of so-called "peace," yet he staunchly supported the horrendous bombing of innocent Iraqis and Afghanis. That is not peace, it is murder.
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Title: The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy by Daniel Pipes ISBN: 0312176880 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes ISBN: 0393325318 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Anti-Americanism by Jean Francois Revel, DIARMID CAMMELL ISBN: 1893554856 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror by DAVID FRUM, RICHARD PERLE ISBN: 1400061946 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power by Daniel Pipes ISBN: 0765809818 Publisher: Transaction Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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