Contra as teorias da conspiração

A Revista de Livros do "New York Times" de hoje analisa no artigo "Nuts and Dolts" de
Ross Dhoutat o livro

VOODOO HISTORIES
The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
By David Aaronovitch
Riverhead Books.

cuja tradução portuguesa acaba de sair, quase ao mesmo tempo que nos Estados Unidos, sob o título "Mentiras da História":

A recensão começa assim:

"Paranoia is a bipartisan temptation. Amid last August’s town hall frenzy, there was a stir over a poll showing that roughly a third of Republicans believed that Barack Obama had been born outside the United States. Liberals trumpeted the finding as proof of the Republican base’s slide into madness. But conservatives had a rebuttal: As recently as 2007, they pointed out, polls showed that a third of Democrats believed George W. Bush knew about 9/11 in advance.

Neither statistic would come as a surprise to a reader of “Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History,” a sweeping tour of the paranoid style in Western politics by David Aaronovitch, a British journalist. In his account, which runs from “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” down to the obsession over Obama’s birth certificate, the pendulum of paranoia is constantly swinging from right to left and back again, depending on which faction feels more powerless and put-upon."

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