They Knew

This book was very engaging and offers a lot of interesting tidbits but I'm not entirely sure it actually delivered on its title. It certainly did a great job of asking us to rethink our preconceptions about Missouri and of establishing that the era of accountability was the anomaly though.

While it wasn't really the intent of the book, it did a pretty good job of explaining why Israel enjoys so much impunity.

When my mother was still with us we used to refer to her as a conspiracy theorist, not in the dismissive or pejorative way we would call someone that today but in a loving way because she was endlessly curious and thinking about what was going behind the scene which often lead her to embrace the idea that there were conspirations all around (a lot of the conspirations she saw are now common knowledge). Why am I telling you about my mom? Because I found the way Kendzior talks about the conspiracy theorists of today to be very humane and refreshing, it's easy to dismiss people as crackpots but it's important to recognize that the impulse which led them down that path is often (but not always) the same which would lead us to pick up a book such as this one.

As per usual, I didn't know about the author's podcast and wasn't familiar with her work prior to reading this book (the only podcasts I actually listen to are Welcome to Night Vale and Well There's Your Problem so yeah I do say that about every podcaster book) so my review is based solely on the book.