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- From: rburns@StarConn.com (Randall J. Burns)
- Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: Conspiracy books
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.004251.6717@StarConn.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:42:51 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.000432.428@cs.ucla.edu> <1k30b1INNe9b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1k30b1INNe9b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cj195@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John W. Redelfs) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) says:
- >
- >>Are any of these books worth reading?
-
- >> _Architects of conspiracy : an intriguing history_ by William P.
- >> Hoar, (Boston : Western Islands), 1984.
-
- >> _Architects of fear : conspiracy theories and paranoia in American
- >> politics_ by George Johnson, (Los Angeles : J.P. Tarcher), 1983.
-
- >> _Conspiracies, cover-ups, and crimes : political manipulation and
- >> mind control in America_ by Jonathan Vankin, (New York : Paragon
- >> House), 1991.
-
- >The only one I've read of these three is Vankin. It had a lot of useful
- >bibliography and had quite a bit of material on the Birchers, LaRouche,
- >Discordians, JFK, but nothing on the Moonies.i
- This may have been influenced by the fact that Rev. Moon has some
- ownership or control of the publisher(I think it was Paragon) of the
- hardcover edition.
-
- I didn't like the Vankin book much. It seemed to me that most of
- the material was lifted without attribution from Mae Brussel and
- Dave Emory(a radio talk show host in the Bay Area). I've never
- found Emory to be someone I'd like to socialize with, but there is very
- little in the Vankin book that you couldn't get from listening to his
- broadcasts.
- >
-