Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. Note on Sources xii
5. Part One
6. Witches and Fear of the Devil 3
7. The Bamberg and Wurzburg Witch Hunts, 1626–1630 8
8. The Characteristics of a Witch Hunt 27
9. The Devil in Loudun 32
10. The Arbitrary Terror of a Witch Hunt 60
11. The Salem Witches 63
12. Hysteria Set Loose 98
13. Part Two
14. The Dreyfus Affair 103
15. If It Walks Like a Duck 138
16. The Scottsboro Boys 142
17. The Witch Hunters 168
18. The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven 170
19. Power, Secrecy, and the Witch Hunt 202
20. Part Three
21. America after 9/11 207
22. The President 216
23. Muslim Fears 229
24. Guantanamo Bay 234
25. Torture, Rendition, and “Ghost Prisoners” 245
26. The Case of Maher Arar 253
27. The Shape of Things to Come 264
28. Notes 275
29. Bibliography 283