Discourses of Suffering

 

POLLOCK, John

1903

Pollock provides a detailed analysis of the plot’s key players, from Oates himself to the perjured witnesses who corroborated his lies, and the judges and politicians who exploited the panic for their own ends.

The book examines how the plot’s fabricators manipulated public opinion through rumor and propaganda, leading to the execution of many innocent Catholics on the flimsiest of evidence.