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History's Greatest
Conspiracies
One Hundred Plots,
Real and Suspected, That have Shocked, Fascinated, and Sometimes
Changed
the World
by H. Paul Jeffers
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With
the possible exception of murder,
nothing has so captured the dark side of human imagination as the
notion
that conspiratorial doings are brewing behind the scenes. And indeed,
throughout
history such plots have often been afoot: Someone, somewhere, seems
always
to have been skulking around in search of one or more like-minded
individuals
to join in an exploit to change the status quo. Some of these plotters
did it out of idealism. Other conspirators acted out of anger,
frustration,
jealousy, envy, greed, or revenge. And some were merely dupes, or just
plain crazy.
Ranked in order of historical significance or because of their
boldness, the one hundred real and imagined plots chronicled here by H.
Paul Jeffers involve schemes ranging from biblical times to today's
headlines.
Among the conspiracies recounted by Jeffers are the arrest and trial of
Jesus of Nazareth; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; Cold War
espionage
and dirty tricks; spectacular robberies and kidnappings from around the
globe; the Wild West escapades of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid;
and
what many believe to be the "conspiracy of silence" surrounding a
flying
saucer crash and the recovery of "aliens". |
History's Greatest
Conspiracies
One Hundred Plots,
Real and Suspected, That have Shocked, Fascinated, and Sometimes
Changed
the World
by H. Paul Jeffers
The Lyons Press, 2004
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