History Decoded, Brad Meltzer
History Decoded, Brad Meltzer
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History Decoded
The Ten Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

Author: Brad Meltzer, Keith Ferrell

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 6 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/22/2013

Synopsis

Adapted from Decoded, Meltzer’s hit show on the HISTORY network, History Decoded explores fascinating, unexplained questions. Is Fort Knox empty? Why was Hitler so intent on capturing the Roman ‘Spear of Destiny'? What’s the government hiding in Area 51? Where did the Confederacy’s $19 million in gold and silver go at the end of the Civil War? And did Lee Harvey Oswald really act alone? Meltzer sifts through the evidence; weighs competing theories; separates what we know to be true with what’s still—and perhaps forever—unproved or unprovable; and in the end, decodes the mystery, arriving at the most likely solution. Along the way we meet Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Nazi propagandists, and the real DB Cooper.

About Brad Meltzer

As a #1 New York Times bestselling author, Brad Meltzer has led a very full personal and professional life. He is one of those rare authors who have been quite successful in different genres of writing. He has had success in fiction, non-fiction, advice, and comics. It must be very satisfying to be so diversified as a writer. He graduated from Columbia Law School and was selected to the Columbia Law Review.

His works of fiction encompass: The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate, The Millionaires, The President's Shadow, and his latest, The Escape Artist. Non-Fiction: History Decoded, Advice (Heroes for My Son..... Heroes for My Daughter), Children's books: I Am Amelia Earhart and I Am Abraham Lincoln, and comics: Justice League of America.

Meltzer is host of Brad Meltzer's Last History on H2 and Brad Meltzer's Decoded on the History Channel. As if that is not enough, he was also responsible for helping find the missing 9/11 flag that was raised by the firefighters at Ground Zero. Using his tv show, he had a former Marine walk in to return the flag. It is now in the 9/11 Museum in New York City.

Meltzer is very attuned to his research, so that fictional books have elements of authenticity. He even had former President's Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush give him advice. He has also participated in Homeland Security round table discussions. There are very few, if any, American authors as diversified as Brad Meltzer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kimberly on September 11, 2023

Interesting, slightly humorous, examination of some better known possible conspiracies. Slightly out of date as one of the mysteries, the Georgia monument, is no longer around, but it is still a mystery as to who financed it and what it's meaning was. Worth a read.......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on March 29, 2025

This is a fun book if you like to explore the what-if's and/or you like to think about conspiracy theories. Meltzer takes ten of the most popular conspiracy theories and tries to debunk them or lean into them, depending on where the evidence takes him and his team. What you end up with is a whole lo......more

Goodreads review by Gary on March 09, 2022

A fascinating look at the great conspiracies.......more

Goodreads review by ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... on January 10, 2015

3.5/5 Stars "The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of all Time" So the gimmick was a lot of fun. I have to say I loved turning to a new chapter and opening the evidence envelopes filled with copies/reproductions of associated "evidence". Each conspiracy section was about 10 pages or so with good discussio......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on January 30, 2014

Brad Meltzer opens this book by telling us he's not a conspiracy theorist. It occurs to me that he's a conspiracy theorist who doesn't want to be called a conspiracy theorist. You'll get an account of several of Meltzer's favorite conspiracies here from the Spear of Destiny to UFOs he looks at the ar......more

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