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The Paranoid Style in American Politics : And Other Essays
The Paranoid Style in American Politics And Other Essays Author:Richard Hofstadter "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... more » of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization." --From the book« less