When you say that Robertson's paraphrase of Mullins' and Webster's rot is a "devastating analysis," I'm not sure what you mean. Could you clarify? ==Dan P At 11:23 AM 1/29/98 -0800, you wrote: >A few days ago, someone (sorry, forgot who) mentioned Michael Lind's book >_Up from Conservatism_, which suggests Pound financed some of Mullins' >work. I was surprised it wasn't mentioned *why* Lind talks about Mullins. > >Briefly, Lind is showing the sources for televangelist and erstwhile >presidential candidate Pat Robertson's book _The New World Order_. >Robertson used *extremely* close paraphrases of both Mullins and Webster >to develop theory of a global conspiracy of Masons and bankers that goes >back to the 18th Century and financed the French and Russian Revolutions, >both world wars and the cold wars. > >About the only substantial change Robertson makes to his sources is >switching "Jewish bankers" to "European bankers." It's an >interesting and devastating analysis which he first presented in the NY >Review of Books a few years back. > >_New World Order_ was a bestseller, by the way. Some conspiracy theories >never go out of style. > >Bill Freind > Dan Pearlman Department of English University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 [Latest book: novel, BLACK FLAMES, White Pine Press, 1997] Tel.: (home) 401 453-3027 (office) 401 874-4659 Fax: 401 874-2580 Internet: [log in to unmask]