Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America

Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America

by Mark Jacobson
Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America

Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America

by Mark Jacobson

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Overview

We are living in a time of unprecedented distrust in America...

Faith in the government is at an all-time low, and political groups on both sides of the aisle are able to tout preposterous conspiracy theories as gospel, without much opposition. “Fake news” is the order of the day. This book is about a man to whom all of it points, the greatest conspiracist of this generation and a man you may not have heard of.

A former U.S. naval intelligence worker, Milton William Cooper published his manifesto Behold a Pale Horse in 1991. Since then it has gone on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, becoming the number-one bestseller in the American prison system. According to Behold a Pale Horse, JFK was assassinated—because he was about to reveal that extraterrestrials were about to take over the earth—by his driver, an alien himself; AIDS is a government conspiracy to decrease the population of blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals; and the Illuminati are secretly involved with the U.S. government to manage relationships with extraterrestrials. Cooper died in a shootout with Apache County police in 2001, one month after September 11, in the year in which he had predicted catastrophe.

In Pale Horse Rider, journalist Mark Jacobson not only tells the story of Cooper’s fascinating life but also provides the social and political context for American paranoia. Indeed, with the present NSA situation and countless other shadowy government dealings often in the news, aren’t we right to suspect that things may not be as they seem?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780698157989
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/04/2018
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 1,005,564
File size: 13 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Mark Jacobson is a writer and journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He is known for his explorations of the seamy side of urban life and for his offbeat and witty take on popular culture. Mark is a contributing editor at New York magazine and a frequent contributor to The Village Voice, National Geographic, Natural History magazine, Men’s Journal, and other publications.

Table of Contents

Part 1 A Minute to Midnight 1

Part 2 The New World Order 35

Part 3 Put the Aliens in the Middle and You've Got All the Answers 63

Part 4 Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars 101

Part 5 Mystery Babylon 135

Part 6 Across 125th Street aka Knowledge, Wisdom, Equality Path 173

Part 7 Patriots 205

Part 8 Armed and Dangerous 281

Aftermath: The Cherry Tree 333

Acknowledgments 351

Notes on Sources 355

Selected Bibliography 357

Index 361

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