In Pale Horse Rider, journalist Mark Jacobson not only tells the story of Cooper’s fascinating life but also provides the social and political context for American paranoia. Cooper died in a shootout with Apache County police in 2001, one month after September 11, in the year in which he had predicted catastrophe.

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According to Behold a Pale Horse, JFK was assassinated-because he was about to reveal that extraterrestrials were about to take over the earth-by his driver, an alien himself AIDS is a government conspiracy to decrease the population of blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals and the Illuminati are secretly involved with the U.S. Since then it has gone on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, becoming the number-one bestseller in the American prison system. And Jacobson, a felicitous writer with a talent for deadpan accounts of the ridiculous, does us a service by bringing us as close as possible to a figure like Cooper, author of a 1991 book called. naval intelligence worker, Milton William Cooper published his manifesto Behold a Pale Horse in 1991. Buy Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America, Pre-Owned Hardcover 0399169954 9780399169953 Mark Jacobson. This book is about a man to whom all of it points, the greatest conspiracist of this generation and a man you may not have heard of.Ī former U.S.

We are living in a time of unprecedented distrust in America.įaith in the government is at an all-time low, and political groups on both sides of the aisle are able to tout preposterous conspiracy theories as gospel, without much opposition.

Pale Horse Rider by Mark Jacobson