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Architects Of Fear Hardcover – November 1, 1983

by George Johnson (Author)

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Hardcover: 252 pages
Publisher: Tarcher; 1st edition (November 1, 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0874772753
ISBN-13: 978-0874772753
Product Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 20 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,226,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3259 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Elections & Political Process > General

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9 of 14 people found the following review helpful

Relativism, Internal Growth & Its Attack From Absolutism

By R. Schwartz on November 29, 2004

Format: Hardcover

I give this book 10 stars. The reason is that it's application applies to current events and would be beneficial to the public and law makers if they had comprehension of the history of conspiracy theories, how it has affected political control and destiny of Western civilization and how it pertains to religion and it's progenitors absolutist and relative thinking.

This is a history book which concepts play a dominant role in our contemporary society and political climate in the United States and through out the entire world, as fundamentalist and religious thinking, both affect our world conditions. Absolutist thinking can pertain to any realm and basically rests in conservativism which seeks to conserve or retain traditions and current cultural values, as in orthodoxy, rejecting all other avenues that deviate as heresy. Such is the basis for conspiracy accusations.

Johnson, in a nonexhaustive study, relates the historical development of the ancient Greek Pythagoreans, the Euclidean's, and the later Rosicrucian's, the Freemasons and the Illuminati. While such groups had differed in many ways and had even battled each other, they all consisted of a common thread: the idea to grow in knowledge and understanding apart from the orthodoxy of conservatism and traditional thought. And so they have always posed as threats to traditional religious and political thinking and subsequently were responsible for uprisings and revolutions, most commonly noted in the French revolution. Such groups were the precursors to the Enlightenment and the departure from the religious control that dominated Europe. Later groups under the attack of conspiracy theories were the opposers of the Catholic Church, to the Catholic Church herself, to the Communists, Bankers and Jews, the list goes on.Read more ›

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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful

Good introduction to paranoid conspiracies

By Nichomachus on August 17, 2001

Format: Hardcover

I believe this book came out in 1983. Although a reprint would be out of line, an updated edition (or a sequel) would be useful, after the explosion in conspiracy theorizing what with the Internet, the Clintons, and the nineties in general.
A fairly quick summation of conspiracy theory positions and slants. The exploration of the origins of conspiracy theories is fairly well-done. The chapter on Adam Weishaupt and the Illuminati is pretty good. All in all, Johnson tries to grapple with too much information, dealing with the origins of the most well-known theories as well as the sociology of the Ameriacn conspiracy crowd, as well as his own visceral responses to the politics of the Reagan era.
Johnson may be too quick and simplistic to conclude what the motivation of this phenomenon is. It is a good introduction to many of the recurring themes that dominate conspiracy literature. I recommend (getting from the library -don't buy it- and) taking a look at Jim Marrs' ridiculous, "Rule By Secrecy." It could essentially be a textbook in the psuedo-scholarship techniques behind the foolishness and fraudulence of the conspiracy theory industry.

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Five Stars

By rblk on January 2, 2015

Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase

A book for true SEEKERS!

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1 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Splendid and indispensable