Architects of Fear

Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics

by George Johnson

"I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's" -- William Blake

about this book

Introduction 11

1. The Architecture of Paranoia 17

2. Philosophers and Magicians 31

3. Thomas Jefferson, Illuminatus 51

4. The Great Pyramid Game 68

5. The Computer in the Vatican 85

6. Bankers, Communists, and Jews 103

7. The Insiders 125

8. The Doomsday Plot 139

9. The New Right 163

10. The "New Dark Ages" Conspiracy 187

Conclusion: Seeing the Light 211

Bibliography, Notes, and Sources 223

Index 245