Voodoo Histories
The Sunday Times Bestseller featured on Hoaxed podcast
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781446424292
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 416
[Aaronovitch] is, broadly speaking, an enemy of conspiracy theories. He is also articulate, well versed in the facts and a good writer
William Leith, Scotsman
Voodoo Histories is as concerned with understanding conspiracies as it is with rebutting them, and Aaronovitch's tone throughout is that of the sage psychologist, his method that of the forensic historian
New Statesman
A handbook to be cherished by anyone who would rather have the unvarnished truth
Daily Mail
A rich and fascinating account.... His unravelling of the theories is a model of common sense and responsible reasoning
AC Grayling, The Times
A serious, entertaining and shocking investigation into the stuff that conspiracy theories are made of. Aaronovitch guides us through the half-truths and speculation and examines the distrust of officialdom which fuels conspiracists' imagination.
Independent on Sunday
A useful book about an important subject
Giles Foden, Guardian
Aaronovitch aims to do more than expose popular nonsense
Rafael Behr, Observer
Aaronovitch aims to do more than expose popular nonsense
Rafael Behr, Observer
Aaronovitch painstakingly dissects these and some of the other great conspiracy theories of the age and demonstrates with merciless clarity what utter tripe they are.
Mail on Sunday
Admirably diligent
Rafael Behr, Observer
Anyone who has toyed with suspicion over the accidental nature of Princess Diana's death, or the self-inflicted nature of David Kelly's, will have that flirtation brutally curtailed by Aaronovitch's caustic rationality
Observer
Brilliant, sparkling and witty
Ian Kershaw
Dazzling debunkery
Scotland on Sunday
Fascinating
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
Fascinating account of the major conspiracy theories of the past 100 years
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
Forensically intelligent and hugely enjoyable study of modern conspiracy theories...consistently reasonable, persuasive and humane
Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
Gloriously readable
Independent
He is articulate, well-versed and a good writer; it's worth reading this whether you agree with him or not.
William Leith, Evening Standard
Intelligent and hugely enjoyable... It is a serious inquiry into why conspiracy theories appeal, and aaronovitch's theories are consistently reasonable, persuasive and humane
Sunday Times
Solid, well-researched and unexpectedly gripping
Christopher Hirst, Independent
Superbly researched, wittily written and eminently sane
Andrew Roberts, Literary Review
Terrifying, hilarious, irreverent and addictively compelling... An instant classic
Simon Sebag-Montefiore
This book leaves us in no doubt that arriving at the truth is a vital matter - at times a matter of life and death
John Lloyd, Financial Times
With dark wit and extraordinary patience he lays bare the psychology of conspiracism
Nick Cohen