It takes the average reader 6 hours and 53 minutes to read The Oldest Trick in the Book by Ben M. Debney
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad feature of history, working from Churchill’s truism that history is written by the victors. To that end, it explores historical episodes of political persecution carried out under cover of moral panic, highlighting the process of ‘Othering’ common to each and theorising a historical model of panic-driven scapegoating from the results. Building this model from case studies in witch panic, communist panic and terrorist panic respectively, The Oldest Trick in the Book builds an argument that...
The Oldest Trick in the Book by Ben M. Debney is 399 pages long, and a total of 103,341 words.
This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 126% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 24 minutes to read The Oldest Trick in the Book aloud.
The Oldest Trick in the Book is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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