"In the years leading up to the Civil War, champions of both the North and South evoked the imagery of subversive conspiracies to rally support for their causes

The turbulent history of the United States has provided a fertile ground for conspiracies, both real and imagined. From the American Revolution to the present d

From the signing of the Constitution to the eve of the Civil War there persisted the belief that slaveholding southerners held the reins of the American nationa

This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on con