Harbaugh, has been an inexhaustible source both of enthusiasm for the project and of suggestions that have improved it. Thanks also to Lynn Anderson for her copyediting, to Nancy Wolff for creating the index, to Michael Correy for designing the book’s interior, and to Jarrod Taylor for designing the cover.
Finally, I’d like to thank my family for all their patience and love: my parents, David and Marjorie Walker; my brother, Andrew Walker; my wife, Rona Kobell; and our children, Maya and Lila Walker. I owe more to them than to anyone else. Except, of course, the Order of the Illumin— Ah, but I am not supposed to speak of that.
INDEX
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abolitionists, 95–96, 98, 99, 101
Abraham, Larry, 200
Adams, John, 110, 113
Adams, John Quincy, 116, 122, 352
advertising, 72–73, 75, 77, 106, 203
African Americans:
Black Panthers, 130, 159, 162, 239, 383
and KKK, 99, 129, 289
and militias, 289–92
“night doctors,” 127–29
racial unrest, 104–8, 130–31
slave insurrections, 83–96, 98–99, 101, 132
and sterilization, 129–30
Tuskegee experiment, 128–29
agenticity, 337–38, 421
Agnew, Spiro, 169
A.I. (film), 325
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, U.S. Bureau of (ATF), 209–10, 270
aliens, 54, 59, 144–45, 223–26
and angels, 146, 149
films about, 69–71, 77–79, 178–80, 252–54, 296–97
Alien Registration Act (1940), 76
Al-Ikhlas, Rasul, 286
Allen, Gary, 105–8, 130, 200, 203, 240, 289, 366, 390
Allende, Salvador, 254
All the President’s Men (film), 174
Al Qaeda, 45, 300–301, 410
alternate reality games (ARGs), 325–28, 331–32
alternate universes, 324–25
Altman, Robert, 383
Alumbrados , 28, 117
American Revolution, 113–14, 116
Anderson, Jack, 163
Andros, Edmund, 32, 351
angels, 133–36, 145–50
Angels & Demons (film), 330
Anson, Robert Sam, They’ve Killed the President, 246
Antelman, Rabbi Marvin S., To Eliminate the Opiate , 200
anti-Catholicism, 34–35, 56, 61, 91, 205, 372
anti-Communism, 141, 205, 317
Anti-Defamation League, 278
Anti-Federalists, 112–13, 316
Anti-Masonic Party, 122–23, 205, 291, 356, 371
anti-Semitism, 140–41, 144, 197–200, 208–9, 287–91, 308, 377, 388, 396, 420
antiterrorism, 297, 299–307
apocalypse, 202–7, 209–11, 302
apophenia, 335–36
Aquarian Conspiracy, 142, 376
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (TV), 302
Árbenz, Jacobo, 253
Archer, Anne, 267, 403
Arise! (video), 252
Arlington Road (film), 293–94
Armageddon, 202–3
Articles of Confederation, 111–12, 116
Aryan Nations, 278, 289
Ascended Masters, 138–39, 140, 141, 142, 145, 146, 149
Ashley, James Mitchell, 7
Associated Press, 230, 333
Astley, Rick, 332
Atlanta, child murders, 128, 211
Baca, George, 93–94, 95
Bacon, Francis, 151, 376
The New Atlantis, 134, 140
Bahrdt, Charles Frederick, 369
Bailey, Alice, 139
Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, 113–14, 116
Baldwin, Chuck, 304
Baldwin, Craig, 252–54
Ballard, Guy, 142, 144
Unveiled Mysteries, 143
Bambaataa, Afrika, 286
bankers, conspiracy of, 12, 123–25, 131, 140, 141, 187, 197, 199, 241, 242, 244, 321, 335, 387, 398
Banner, Bob, 281–83, 406
Banner, James, 121
Barbados, slave rebellions in, 87
Barker, Gray, 225–27, 394, 398
They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, 225, 227
Barker, William, 53
Barkun, Michael, 199, 276, 300–301
Barlow, John Perry, 136
Barr, Bob, 304
Barruel, Augustin, Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, 118, 197
Baum, L. Frank, 39–40, 70, 138
The Sea Fairies , 125
BBC, 326–27
Beard, Charles, 369
Beast, The (game), 325–26, 327, 417
Beatles, 203, 204, 346
Beck, Glenn, 14–15, 308, 318
Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 7
Being John Malkovich (film), 323
Being There