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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: Politics"
"[Muirhead and Rosenblum] are convincing in their argument that there is something different afoot in the world of conspiracy and that danger lies ahead if we don't confront it with truth and action." * Kirkus *
"Muirhead and Rosenblum have pointed out something genuinely new and disturbing, but in an appropriately careful, levelheaded way. Just one of many reasons this is a book worth reading, even if it doesn’t make for a particularly happy story. . . . I’d recommend it to anyone disturbed by what’s going on."
---Jesse Singal, New York Magazine's Intelligencer"Timely and insightful . . . . A tremendous contribution . . . . It identifies and names a new style of political discourse and clarifies the danger it poses . . . . At a time when so much attention focuses on Trump’s formal abuses of power,
A Lot of People Are Saying shines an illuminating spotlight on the even more destructive power of his words, and the wild eddies of unreason they unleash."
---Lee Drutman, Washington Monthly"[The authors] insist that there is a meaningful difference between believing in a conspiracy theory and committing conspiracism, without any theory at all."
---Jill Lepore, Times Literary Supplement"Both terrifying and hopeful — and maybe the best book I’ve read recently on the rise of conspiratorial thinking in the Trump era. (The section on “enacting democracy” is vital)." * Carlos Lozada on Twitter *
"There’s this book,
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot because it does capture something essential about how we respond in these moments."
---Jon Lovett, Pod Save America
