Editing Milton William Cooper (section)

==''Behold a Pale Horse''==
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In 1991, Cooper wrote and published ''Behold a Pale Horse''.<ref name=Gilroy/> The book has been influential among "UFO and militia circles".<ref name=Nattrass>{{cite book|last=Nattrass|first=Nicoli|title=The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back|year=2012|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|location=New York|isbn=978-0231149129|pages=[https://archive.org/details/aidsconspiracysc0000natt/page/4 4], 23–27|url=https://archive.org/details/aidsconspiracysc0000natt|url-access=registration|author-link=Nicoli Nattrass|access-date=January 17, 2013}}</ref> Just prior to the trial of [[Terry Nichols]] in 1997, ''[[The Guardian]]'' described it as "the manifesto of the [[Militia organizations in the United States|militia movement]]".<ref name=Vulliamy>{{cite news|last1=Vulliamy|first1=Ed|last2=Dirks|first2=Bruce|title=New trial may solve riddle of Oklahoma bombing|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/1997/nov/03/mcveigh.usa|access-date=January 17, 2013|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=November 3, 1997|location=London}}</ref>

According to sociologist [[Paul Gilroy]], Cooper claimed "an elaborate conspiracy theory that encompasses the Kennedy assassination, the doings of the secret world government, the coming ice age, and a variety of other covert activities associated with the [[Illuminati]]'s declaration of war upon the people of America".<ref name=Gilroy/> [[Political science|Political scientist]] [[Michael Barkun]] characterized it as "among the most complex superconspiracy theories", and also among the most influential due to its popularity in militia circles as well as mainstream bookstores.<ref name="Barkun2006" /> Historian [[Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke]] described the book as a "chaotic [[:wikt:farrago|farrago]] of conspiracy myths interspersed with reprints of executive laws, official papers, reports and other extraneous materials designed to show the looming prospect of a world government imposed on the American people against their wishes and in flagrant contempt of the Constitution."<ref name=Goodrick-Clarke>{{cite book|last=Goodrick-Clarke|first=Nicholas|title=Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity|year=2002|publisher=[[New York University Press]]|location=New York|isbn=978-0814731550|pages=284–285|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xaiaM77s6N4C|author-link=Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke|access-date=January 17, 2013|chapter=Conspiracy Beliefs and the New World Order}}</ref>