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A New York Times Best Seller!
New York Times bestselling author Jesse Ventura is back with more conspiracies that our government wishes you didn’t know about!
In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura offers a different side to the stories we’ve all heard and read about in the history books. He takes a look at the wide gap between what the government knows and what is revealed to the American people. The media is complicit in these acts of deception, often refusing to consider alternate possibilities and dismissing voices that diverge from public opinion. He will look closely at the theories that have been presented over the years and examine the truth as well as the lies. Ventura does not shy away from the tough questions. As he states, “When I get denied something, I do the opposite of getting intimidated—I get angry.”
Now with new conspiracies added including information on the CIA torture scandal and the financial meltdown of 2008, you will see how the United States government continues to abuse our civil liberties and why we need to continue to stand up for what we know is right.
You may not believe everything in American Conspiracies, but it is guaranteed to make you think harder about everything you do believe.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
- Sales Rank: #38905 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.30" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 332 pages
About the Author
Jesse Ventura is the former Independent governor of Minnesota. He is also a former US Navy SEAL and "New York Times" bestselling author of four books, including "American Conspiracies" and "63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read." He is currently the host and executive producer of truTV's "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura."
Dick Russell has written for such varied publications as "Time," "Sports Illustrated," and the "Village Voice." His books include "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Black Genius," and "On the Trail of the JFK Assassins," as well as the "New York Times" bestsellers "American Conspiracies," "63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read," and "They Killed Our President" (all three with Jesse Ventura).
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
A necessary, newly revised review of America's secret history
By Anthony J. Thorne
This newly revised edition of Jesse Ventura's AMERICAN CONSPIRACIES adds a handful of chapters to his already detailed overview of America's complicated, covert history. As I mentioned in my review of the first edition, the book originally arrived at a time when conspiracies, specifically American conspiracies, were in the news more than they had been in years. Oliver Stone appeared on the Bill Maher show with a copy of JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE by James W. Douglass, and the book became a national bestseller. Elsewhere, ABC news reporter Chris Bury, at a conference in Philadelphia, would label noted FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley a conspiracy theorist on camera after she critiqued the Bush administration's curious activities prior to 9/11. Then, as now, the phrase `conspiracy theorist' continues to be wielded as an all-purpose put-down by some, and is unwillingly adopted by others who have begun questioning the `official story' surrounding any number of events.
As Rowley noted to her aggressive interviewer, a conspiracy is quite often simply "people deciding to do something bad". People who make such a decision aren't likely to announce it in a press release, hence the logical requirement of secrecy. Likewise, some misdeeds would require more than one person to be successfully carried out, hence the accompanying notion of collusion in private. Yet the idea of two, three or more people in key positions of power privately deciding to do something nefarious is viewed by the mainstream media as an invention of the mentally insane. Criminals might do it, the Mafia might do it, doctors or dentists or lawyers might occasionally do it (as folks from all walks of life are prosecuted for criminal acts every year), but the idea of certain politicians or elements within a government colluding to commit a criminal act is somehow viewed as beyond the pale.
With the vast amounts of power and profit available to those in government, you don't have to buy the premise of every conspiracy theory going to realize that - no matter how big or small - private collusion for personal gain, and a subsequent cover-up by those involved, is going to occur at some point or another. Likewise, there would be few incentives for later politicians to shed light on the events, and many more incentives, both professionally and privately, to keep their big mouths shut. It may all simply depend on the personalities involved. To suggest a hypothetical, can anyone think of any recent, powerful leaders of mainstream American political parties who largely avoided intensive scrutiny by the press, encouraged governmental secrecy, and displayed a notable interest in enhancing their private wealth while in office? Even better - and to extend the argument into areas covered at one point in Ventura's book - can you think of two such upstanding folk, perhaps with a shared background going back some years? This is not to point the finger (if you browse the later book and DVD recommendations in this review, you'll find material that clearly does), but simply to note that the extremes of long-held ideology, paired with the potential for wealth and the accumulation of power, would provide fertile grounds for conspiratorial behavior to be encouraged, rather than reduced.
Ventura's interest in the topic seems both sincere and substantial. Photos of a launch event for the long out-of-print deluxe hardcover of John Armstrong's HARVEY AND LEE (a massive volume discussing curious events in the background history of Lee Harvey Oswald) depict a smiling Ventura holding his own personal copy. A more recent filmed interview with Ventura on the Alex Jones show a few years back concluded with Jones passing Ventura a copy of his documentary TERRORSTORM, and requesting him to watch it. Ventura agreed that he would, and parted with a handshake. Concluding footage of Ventura's car pulling out and driving away revealed, with a zoomed-in shot, the former Governor solemnly reading the back cover of the DVD. (Ultimately, Ventura not only watched the film, but later appeared on camera in an expanded second edition of the movie). Since then, Ventura has appeared in the Alex Jones film TRUTH RISING, debated potential conspiracies with numerous TV and radio personalities, and hosted his own TruTV show on the topic, bluntly titled CONSPIRACY THEORY. The quality of the episodes of the latter that I saw struck me as varying from mixed, to quite good, but not for a moment have I doubted Ventura's own curiosity about the subject.
As author, Ventura could have chosen any number of conspiracy theories to discuss in this volume, but the selected few are compelling and backed up with detailed research. The Wall Street plot against Roosevelt - a very public conspiracy neutered by General Smedley Butler, and now almost forgotten - is covered in detail. The assassinations of Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King are also examined. (As noted in other reviews, the King family ultimately won a court case that suggested the official story explaining MLK's shooting was contrived to cover up government involvement in same). Watergate (a topic thoughtfully covered in earlier books like Jim Hougan's SECRET AGENDA) is dipped into, as are the chances of vote-rigging in the two elections won by George W. Bush, and how the recent Wall Street bailout has benefited a chosen few. 9/11 - the subject of a recent article by Ventura, written on the request of the Huffington Post, then censored by the same site within hours of being posted - is covered in particular detail. Ventura's co-author is Dick Russell, a fine writer of past works on the JFK assassination (such as THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH) who lends a tremendous depth of research to Ventura's gruff, singular writing voice.
Some readers might wish to dig further into the topics explored in AMERICAN CONSPIRACIES. On the assassination of JFK, I highly recommend James W. Douglass's JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE, Philip H. Melanson's SPY SAGA (covering the background of Lee Harvey Oswald), Hinckle and Turner's DEADLY SECRETS (documenting the CIA's use of anti-Castro mercenaries for covert activities), Gaeton Fonzi's THE LAST INVESTIGATION (recounting the abortive House Select Committee on Assassinations inquiry from the mid 70's), and Gerald D. McKnight's BREACH OF TRUST, (studying the machinations of the Warren Commission after the event). James DiEugenio has published two fine books that offer a good overview of the case - DESTINY BETRAYED, and RECLAIMING PARKLAND (the latter a part rebuttal to Bugliosi's anti-conspiracy screed RECLAIMING HISTORY). On the death of MLK, Melanson's THE MURKIN CONSPIRACY (`Murkin' being the code chosen by the FBI for their investigation into King's death), and William Pepper's AN ACT OF STATE are both exemplary. On the shooting of RFK, THE ROBERT F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: NEW REVELATIONS ON THE CONSPIRACY AND COVER-UP by Philip Melanson (currently only available from Amazon marketplace), THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY by William Turner, and Shane O'Sullivan's recent, extremely thorough WHO KILLED BOBBY? are the best works available, and each generally supports the conclusions and evidence presented by the others. (It should be noted that James Douglass is at work on books of his own about the murders of King and Robert Kennedy).
On the subject of 9/11, (and in recommended order), I'd suggest the key books by the indefatigable David Ray Griffin, those being THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT: OMISSIONS AND DISTORTIONS, THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED and THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF WORLD TRADE CENTRE 7. These can be supplemented with the most thoughtful and comprehensive overviews of the entire event, Jim Marrs's THE TERROR CONSPIRACY, Webster Tarpley's superlative 9/11 SYNTHETIC TERROR, and the overlooked but extremely incisive 9/11: THE NEW EVIDENCE, by British journalist Ian Henshall. Peter Dale Scott's THE ROAD TO 9/11 is a lengthy, heavily annotated University of California Press volume that suggestively fingers two ex-Bush administration members as being busier that morning, with clearly deleterious results, than you may have realized. The major documentaries on the topic are the aforementioned TERRORSTORM: SECOND EDITION, the recent LOOSE CHANGE FINAL CUT and LOOSE CHANGE 9/11: AN AMERICAN COUP, and the disquieting CORE OF CORRUPTION: IN THE SHADOWS. Readers (or viewers) pondering the subject of 9/11 anew might like to contemplate the subject of the various military drills that took place on 9/11 - notably, `Vigilant Guardian' and the other suggestively titled drills re-enacting mock hijacking scenarios on the day of the attacks - and how beneficial they were to the success of the actual hijackings on the day. (General Richard Myers, in a Commission interview, enthused at one point that the drills had actually helped, not hindered, their response on 9/11, presumably suggesting that if the drills had not been present, the US military response - which failed to intercept any of the planes, or prevent any of them from reaching their targets - would have been even worse. The clear embarrassment of General Myers and NORAD commander Ralph Eberhart towards those `coincidental' hijacking drills that mirrored the hijackings they failed to prevent, magically predicted the who and the how and where and when, and fortuitously helped to confuse the immediate response of others, is outlined in detail in Chapter 21 of Michael C. Ruppert's CROSSING THE RUBICON). 9/11 researchers should also dig up an overlooked work from nearly 30 years ago – the 1987 book THE IRAN-CONTRA CONNECTION: SECRET TEAMS AND COVERT OPERATIVES IN THE REAGAN ERA, by Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott and Jane Hunter, which charts numerous connections and features participants that would reappear both in the foreground and background of the 9/11 story years later. Strikingly, IRAN CONTRA CONNECTION also features a chapter on covert activities from the era that were done in conjunction with Israeli collaborators, and notes a private government think tank – the ‘U.S.-Israel Political Military Committee’ – was set up by Alexander Haig and Robert McFarlane to ‘look at the big picture’ the same year that Israeli government strategists began championing the Oded Yinon plan to target and break up Israel’s rivals in the Middle East. The Yinon plan would influence Cheney and Wolfowitz’s 1992 Defense Planning Guidance paper, and the later PNAC document ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses’
For a perceptive and sympathetic overview of the entire topic of conspiracy, I'd recommend THE ROUGH GUIDE TO CONSPIRACY THEORIES, a lengthy volume now available in an expanded second edition. David Talbot has just released THE DEVIL'S CHESSBOARD, a damning biography of former CIA head Allen Dulles. Finally, two volumes that exemplify the interconnected nature of much of the above material are Russ Baker's FAMILY OF SECRETS, a Bush family biography (following the exploits of Dubya's Presidential father George H.W. through CIA-linked involvement in Watergate and - possibly - the killing of JFK), and H.P. Albarelli Jr's A TERRIBLE MISTAKE: THE MURDER OF FRANK OLSON AND THE CIA'S SECRET COLD WAR EXPERIMENTS, a recent, mammoth volume that sheds light on much that was once unclear about the CIA's involvement in MK-Ultra, the covert program that dumped much of its documentation following shred orders from nervous, odious CIA head Richard Helms.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
What You Won’t Read in Your Newspapers
By Acute Observer
American Conspiracies
Jesse Ventura is a former governor of Minnesota and is the host of a TV show "Conspiracy Theory". Dick Russell has written six previous books. The `Introduction' tells how Vietnam educated him; his father was right (p.x). The biggest conspiracy was the looting by Wall Street that destroyed our economy (p.xix). Jesse warns about plans for a military take-over of the country, the "Continuity of Government" plan (p.xix). There are those who hear the phrase "conspiracy theory" and stop thinking; this is an example of Pavlovian conditioning induced by the corporate media. This book lists many conspiracies in historical order. The last chapters will be the most controversial. This book has references for `Further Reading' and `Notes' on the chapters; it lacks an Index.
Chapter 1 tells about the Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy; it was not just a lone nut. Chapter 2 tells about the corporations that tried to overthrow the Federal government in 1934. "It Can't Happen Here"? The American Legion was founded by big corporations for use in strike breaking (p.13). They also funded the "Liberty League" for propaganda purposes (p.15). The Major General who revealed this plot to Congress was ridiculed by publications like `Time' and the `New York Times'. The "Round Table Groups" (p.17) are a "cabal of global financiers" (p.19). The assassination of JFK was the biggest cover-up in a lifetime (Chapter 3). An appointed commission said Oswald did it, later the House Select Committee said it was part of a conspiracy (p.23). "It was completely an inside job" says Castro (p.29). Jesse offers his views about JFK's assassination (p.32). Who was in control? There are interesting comments about "The Second Oswald". Mistaken identification? Mistakes in the press happen when writers get their information second or third hand. Chapter 4 asks who was behind the assassination of Malcolm X.
Chapter 5 explains why James Earl Ray was a fall-guy for unnamed conspirators. Was Ray used by MK-ULTRA (p.62)? The assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy has unresolved questions (Chapter 6). Could Sirhan have been programmed to do what he did (pp.72-73)? Since some of the Watergate burglars worked for the CIA, there is a belief that this agency was involved against Nixon (Chapter 7)! There is more to Jim Jones and the "mass suicide" at Jonestown in 1978 (Chapter 8). The Reagan-Bush team worked with Iran to damage President Carter's re-election campaign (Chapter 9). The Reagan team governed like it campaigned: lying and cheating (p.109). The CIA has been involved in drug trafficking for decades (Chapter 10). American banks benefit (p.114). The CIA originated the heroin epidemic in the cities, then the cocaine epidemic (p.115). Bush and Clinton were involved (p.118).
Chapter 11 deals with the "stolen elections" of 2000, 2004 (and almost 2008). [If Gore won his home state of Tennessee he would be president. Maybe the votes remembered his backing of NAFTA in 1993 and the resultant loss of manufacturing jobs?] Does that plane crash on page 141 remind you of JFK Jr? [Jesse needs to do more thinking about that "antiquated" Electoral College.] Chapter 12 asks what really happened on 9/11? Did some people in the government know in advance (p.143)? How could the FAA and out air defenses have failed? Who ordered a stand down (p.144)? Was the collapse due to a controlled demolition (p.148)? Why did Building 7 collapse (p.149)? [Shoddy design and implementation said a PBS report.] Did a Boeing 727 or a missile hit the Pentagon (p.151)? Did military jets shoot down Flight 93 (p.153)? Were warnings ignored (p.154)? Page 155 tells of other warnings before 9/11. "The 9/11 Commission was a whitewash" (p.161). Did "almost every person involved in the official version of 9/11 lied".
Wall Street caused the worst depression in one lifetime (Chapter 13). It was not "sub-prime loans" that caused this (p.165). They were financial fodder to create Collateralized Debt Obligations that took junk BBB bonds and turned them into blue-chip AAA bonds to sell to trusting investors. Did Goldman-Sachs swindle vast sums from ordinary people (p.167)? It seems to be. Page 168 concisely defines the cartel called the Federal Reserve. [Does Executive Order 11,110 explain why JFK was bumped off?] The New Deal financial regulations prevented another depression (p.169). It also prevented the looting that destroyed pension funds (pp.172-173). [Was this the biggest fraud since the Yazoo Lands swindle (p.174)?] The Federal Reserve has looted the purchasing power of the dollar (p.175). They need "effective oversight and auditing". Is President Obama in debt to Goldman-Sachs (p.177)? Should the Federal Reserve be abolished (p.182)?
Is there a plan to end democracy in America (Chapter 14)? That quote by Vice President Wallace seems prophetic (p.183). Were prisoners tortured as an exercise in sadism (p.185)? Should the "USA Patriot Act" be amended or abolished (p.187)? Are there plans to take over the country (pp.190-191)? Concentration camps (p.192)? Is the US Army War College preparing a new war on citizens (p.193)? What about those RFID's (p.198)? "We the People" are under attack by the corporate elite as never before (p.200). The `Epilogue' says that you may not believe everything in this book, but these elements can't be ignored even if it is unpleasant. The last chapters are "the most painful and frightening of all". Jesse says we are in the most danger since 1776 (p.202). This book was composed from documentation. Do you think we need a "Truth Commission"?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
This is a book that every high school student should ...
By painterdave
This is a book that every high school student should be FORCED to read. Packed with researched facts, reveals a lot that the average person is clueless since the media does not ask questions. Ventura writes in a manner that makes you want to keep reading. It is not a slow paced book. You will end up looking further on YouTube to see Ventura on television confronting people with the facts. Buy This Book!
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