About: Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From

Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From is a 1997 book by historian Daniel Pipes. In Conspiracy, Pipes argues that the fear of non-existent conspiracies has flourished down through the ages, and has sometimes had significant impact, causing coups and revolutions, bringing leaders including Lenin, Perón, Napoleon and Saddam Hussein into power, and driving Trujillo, the Gang of Four and James II of England from power.