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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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    Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
     
    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