This book has been about the many missteps that accompanied a great adventure that began in 1492. Much of what followed was exemplary. But I, and any right-thinking human being, must also be, and will continue to be, ashamed of a great deal of it—which is why mass hysteria must always be countered with reason.
Today, that is happening less and less. Remember what I said at the start:
Guns. Donald Trump. Russophobia. The mass hysteria from the left bleeds one into the other, folding in additional insanity like “white privilege” and the myth of man-made climate change. Look at our history and remember that while there are those of us who learn the lessons of mass hysteria, there are others who will exploit those lessons.
When the left has removed all the statues of Columbus, all the Confederate flags, all the monuments to our Founding Fathers; when books like this have been burned and removed from libraries, when we have allowed hysterical cries to terminate or terrorize rational discourse, we will all have become Cotton Mather and Hassan-i Sabbah and those who erected testaments to their own infamy with the bones of others.
In one of his many exquisite plays on words, Benjamin Franklin said of Americans—just before he affixed his signature on the Declaration of Independence—“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to thank my editor, Kate Hartson, for having the faith to believe in my vision, and Jeff Rovin for his outstanding research and structural conceptualizations.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In 2016, after twenty-two years on the air, Michael Savage was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame, an honor that Dr. Savage calls “the capstone of my life.”
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NOTES
CHAPTER 1: MASS HYSTERIA INFLECTION POINT
1. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/antifa-ice-employees-list-immigration-nebraska-github-medium-linkedin-sam-lavigne-a8412496.html
2. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/06/20/peter-fonda-apologizes-vulgar-barron-trump-tweet/719504002/
3. https://www.vox.com/2018/6/25/17501450/maxine-waters-trump-pelosi-civility-sarah-sanders
4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-leaders-voice-hope-that-bill-addressing-family-separations-will-pass-thursday/2018/06/20/cc79db9a-7480-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?utm_term=.19742c2f8378
5. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=e aRvKpLUf0C&pg=PA43&lpg= PA43&dq=%22It+is+essential+to+have+a+tangible+enemy, +not+merely+an +abstract+one. %E2%80%9D%22&source=bl&ots=9jICNRnYPW&sig= J7B39CWpWwyh9B0lNdwpyQ6V3SU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-iPeku KfcAhXDm-AKHahcCCkQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is %20essential%20to%20have%20a%20tangible%20enemy%2C%20not %20merely%20an%20abstract%20one.%E2%80%9D%22&f=false
7. https://books.google.com/books?id=gMLieJOtWwIC&pg=PA168&lpg= PA168&dq=Hoffer+japanese+berlin+1932&source=bl&ots=CjnziPqj-g&sig= PHsD6FqKz6PlXjRSELoY5zRpT6w&hl=en&sa=X&ved= 0ahUKEwjymZjQuKfcAhUiUt8KHVDPAkUQ6AEIezAD#v=onepage&q= Hoffer%20japanese%20berlin%201932&f=false
8. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/06/china-war-japan-rana-mitter-review
9. https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/thomas-jefferson-had-some-issues-newspapers
10. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/samuel_johnson_157371
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_in_the_Venona_papers
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White
13. https://www.denverpost.com/2018/06/04/colorado-civil-rights-commission-impact/
14. https://michaelsavage.com/?p=17803
CHAPTER 2: HISTORY OF MASS HYSTERIA
1. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana
2. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trump-jokes-about-launching-nukes-to-radio-host-michael-savage
3. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/11/02/poll-trump-russia-election-crime/827907001/
4. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/31/doj-russia-investigation-costs-near-17-million/661744002/
5. http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/03/manafort-lawyers-claim-leaky-mueller-probe-has-provided-no-evidence-of-contacts-with-russian-officials/
6. http://www.businessinsider.com/space-travel-per-seat-cost-soyuz-2016-9
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting
8. https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/914853465926639618?lang=en
9. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/358884-warren-to-gop-thoughts-and-prayers-not-enough-after-texas-shooting
10. www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/us/police-response-mass-shootings.html
12. https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sexual-misconduct/weinstein-here-s-growing-list-men-accused-sexual-misconduct-n816546
13. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/panic-not-answer-article-1.3651778
14. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/opinion/metoo-sexual-harassment-men.html
15. https://twitter.com/emilylindin/status/933074980627030016?lang=en
16. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/11/15/florian-jaeger-rochester-harassment-open-letter/866662001/
17. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/11/30/the-growing-list-of-sexual-harassment-scandals-as-satirized-in-cartoons/?utm _term=.9f0c39be4b81
18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman
19. www.stageandcinema.com/2012/03/24/the-many-mistresses-est-jr/
20. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/what-happened-to-trumps-16-sexual-misconduct-accusers.html
21. http://www.newsweek.com/trump-scared-germs-needs-drink-straw-avoid-contamination-671730
22. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/missouri-senator-who-called-for-trump-assassination-running-for-seat/article_dff17c03-6ac1-59db-9273-559453aa3636.html
23. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/obama-effigy-hanged-outside-church_n_1581272.html
24. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stormy-daniels-describes-her-alleged-affair-with-donald-trump-60-minutes-interview/
25. https://patriotpost.us/articles/56645-republicans-blast-fbi-bias-exposed-in-the-ig-report
26. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anthony-weiner-begins-21-month-sentence-sexting-underage-girl-n817971
27. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-s-kim-trump-meet-andrea-mitchell-weighs-risks-n855111
28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time
29. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier
30. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/391770-trump-lavishes-kim-with-compliments-after-historic-summit
31. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
32. https://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/sputorig.html
33. https://books.google.com/books?id=vHJ1oWiqUgkC&pg=PA25&lpg= PA25&dq=%22the+united+states+now+sleeps+under+a+soviet+moon%22& source=bl&ots=lHbU9yGvw3&sig=bnE0MYRFdZ9-Au-nWBjz8fLuKAs &hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLs766z6fcAhUvmuAKHasLBO0Q6AEIbjAN #v=onepage&q=%22the%20united%20states%20now%20sleeps %20under%20a%20soviet%20moon%22&f=false
34. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Advisory_Committee_for_Aeronautics
CHAPTER 3: MASS HYSTERIA
1. ht
tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting
2. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-brustein/the-new-anarchists_b_1085909.html
3. https://www10.dict.cc/wp_examples.php?lp_id=1&lang=en&s=Seven %20against%20Thebes
4. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext %3A1999.01.0014%3Acard%3D1032
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus
7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/06/the-top-15-democratic-presidential-candidates-for-2020-ranked-3/?utm _term=.f01ce0cc73db
8. https://www.c-span.org/video/?320176-5/senate-debate-unaccompanied-immigrant-children
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Don_Hutto_Residential_Center
10. https://twitter.com/genmhayden/status/1008035777455026178?lang=en
11. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017JB014423
12. https://www.newsmax.com/michaelsavage/border-immigration-children/2018/06/19/id/867098/
13. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/united-states-global-leader-asylum-requests_us_5b28eea9e4b0f0b9e9a50f57
14. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/presentation/9d76/3f8c2aec3b020 a0fc30a150e88f3d7bdb424.pdf
15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)
16. http://www.bostonmassacre.net/trial/acct-adams3.htm
17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act
18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Locust; www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/the-day-of-the-locust/summary-and-analysis/chapter-27
19. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-engineer-fired-writing-manifesto-women-s-neuroticism-sues-company-n835836
20. https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/trump-president-charlottesville-1202535835/
21. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-protests-idUSKCN1AU0TW
22. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hitler-s-threats-against-the-jews-1941-1945
23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hand_(Serbia)
24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_press#History
25. https://salemwitchmuseum.com/blog/elie-wiesels-salem-witch-trials-memorial-dedication-speech-1992
26. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/us/university-of-missouri-fires-melissa-click-who-tried-to-block-journalist-at-protest.html
27. https://exploringyourmind.com/tell-lie-thousand-times-become-truth/
28. https://www.vox.com/cards/mike-brown-protests-ferguson-missouri/mike-brown-police-officer-darren-wilson
29. http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-gosar-charlottesville-riots-george-soros-conspiracy-2017-10
30. https://medium.com/@peacelovetrig/on-the-sexist-etimology-of-hysteria-and-what-academia-did-about-it-ef98815ddb6c
31. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi383/syllabus/topic15/
32. https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/10-strangest-mass-hysterias1.htm
33. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria
34. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria#LeRoy,_New_York _(2011%E2%80%9312)
35. https://www.everydayhealth.com/healthy-living/0130/erin-brockovich-investigates-mass-hysteria-mystery-illness.aspx
36. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freud%27s_seduction_theory
37. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_(medicine)
38. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Martin_Charcot
CHAPTER 4: FROM PLYMOUTH ROCK TO CITY HALL
1. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/yale-offers-rehire-man-broke-window-showing-slavery-article-1.2717458
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid
3. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/marranos-conversos-and-new-christians
4. www.cnn.com/2012/05/20/opinion/garcia-columbus-jewish/index.html
5. http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/following-terrorist-attack-barcelonas-chief-rabbi-says-his-community-is-doomed/
6. https://fullfact.org/news/muslims-uk-viral-poster-factchecked/
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bradford_(Plymouth_Colony _governor)
10. http://archive.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/2177-the-trial-of-george-spencer.html
11. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp
12. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/09/new_haven _colony_bestiality_trial_the_twisted_puritan_origins_of_our_modern.html
13. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7bdd74/the-time-a-pilgrim-got-the-death-penalty-for-having-sex-with-a-turkey
14. https://www.theawl.com/2017/08/the-curious-case-of-thomas-hogg/, https://vdocuments.site/things-fearful-to-name.html
15. http://www.damnedct.com/alse-alice-young, https://patriciahysell.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/alse-young/
16. https://books.google.com/books?id=nlcssspLvd8C&pg=PT64&lpg= PT64&dq=%E2%80%9CNeither+do+I.+And+if+I+see+anybody+undesirable +coming+in+here,+I%E2%80%99ll+be+the+first+to+complain.%E2%80%9D &source=bl&ots=z96kfNuvOJ&sig=FXpkX65gOeBMMyLhop1RwjXCZis &hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHzKT14qfcAhXImuAKHRKrD6QQ6 AEIMzAB#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CNeither%20do%20I.%20And %20if%20I%20see%20anybody%20undesirable%20coming%20in%20here %2C%20I%E2%80%99ll%20be%20the%20first%20to%20complain.%E2 %80%9D&f=false
17. http://www.witchcraftandwitches.com/trials_connecticut.html
18. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/was-the-last-witch-of-boston-actually-a-catholic-martyr-27747 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Glover
19. https://edwingcoleman.wordpress.com/2002/05/31/its-bluenoses-and-not-bluenosers-may-3102/
20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather
21. https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/08/23/robert-lee-espn-decision-pull-announcer-broadcast
22. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/02/20/raising-kane-i
23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Potemkin
24. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-mayor-asks-Cal-to-cancel-12104330.php
25. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Circle
26. http://gothamist.com/2017/08/23/de_blasio_grant_hate_symbol.php
27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1868_Democratic_National_Convention
28. https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2012/03/obama-if-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon-118439
29. http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/02/19/michelle-obama-takes-heat-for-saying-shersquos-lsquoproud-my-countryrsquo-for.html
30, 31. https://www.indiewire.com/2013/11/review-12-12-12-hurricane-sandy-relief-concert-doc-featuring-bruce-springsteen-paul-mccartney-the-rolling-stones-more-91568/
32. https://deadline.com/2017/09/the-x-files-gillian-anderson-david-duchovny-take-a-knee-colin-kaepernick-nfl-pharrell-williams-stevie-wonder-social-injustice-1202176894/
CHAPTER 5: FROM SALEM TO CNN
1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/05/brawley-begins-to-repay-lawyer-she-falsely-accused/2618399/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley_rape_allegations
2. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abigail-adams-urges-husband-to-remember-the-ladies
3. http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17970213aa
4. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/august_2017/73_say_freedom_of_speech_worth_dying_for
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_William%27s_War
8. http://www.famous-trials.com/salem/2074-asal-math
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Bishop http://www.famous-trials.com/salem/2043-bridget-bishop
10. https://books.google.com/books?id=kDuboILCZwYC&pg=PA33&lpg= PA33&dq=%22we+cannot+but+humbly+recommend+unto+the+government, +the+speedy+and+vigorous+prosecution+of+such+as+have+rendered+ themselves+obnoxious,%22&source=bl&ots=JY2Z1ffQM5&sig=Eqnp TVYcaXl-lNJQVz2QXrTxw
Ak&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHzbD08 KfcAhXIY98KHdQVBF4Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22we%20cannot %20but%20humbly%20recommend%20unto%20the%20government%2C %20the%20speedy%20and%20vigorous%20prosecution%20of%20such% 20as%20have%20rendered%20themselves%20obnoxious%2C%22&f=false
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Corey
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Good, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Good
13. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ma-witches-b/2/
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials#September_1692
15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials#Accusations_and _examinations_before_local_magistrates
16. https://www.tulane.edu/~salem/Salem%20and%20Village.html
17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings
19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_847
20. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pan-am-flight-103-explodes-over-scotland
21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing
22. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khobar_Towers_bombing
23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings
24. https://www.britannica.com/event/USS-Cole-attack
25. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
26. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan _(2001%E2%80%93present); https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/15214375
27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl
28. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-19881138
29. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-synagogue-bombings-in-istanbul-al-qaedas-new-front
30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Berg
31. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing; https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/boston-marathon-bombing-attack-massive-manhunt-followed-n865766
32. https://nypost.com/2015/01/07/gunmen-who-killed-12-at-newspaper-were-calm-controlled/
33. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012136/quotes/?ref_=tx_sq_sr_40
34. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_cuisine#Foods_and_ingredients