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The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
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The distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a vast' or gigantic' conspiracy as the motive force in historical events...The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of this conspiracy in apocalyptic terms--he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. --From the book
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Metadata
- Authors
- Barker, C. A., & Hofstadter, R.
- Venue
- The American Historical Review
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1966-10
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 281
- ISSN
- 0002-8762 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2109912869
- Cited by
- 1,442
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 208.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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