| Description |
xix, 337 pages, 24 pages of color plates : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Contains bibliographical references (pages [317]-328) and index. |
| Summary |
"America's biggest secret is hidden in plain sight-the vast, fundamental and ongoing influence of fraternal orders on our culture. Just decades ago, one out of every three Americans belonged to a secret society, and more than six hundred such groups flourished throughout the country. Today they are still mighty, particularly in the military, police and government."--P. 4 of cover. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction -- Look around, they're everywhere -- Pomp and circumstance: every man a king -- The Grand Cyclops: race, gender, and the brotherhoods -- Strange, esoteric and confounding twilight language -- Raising tubal-Cain -- Sons of the desert: Freemasonry in popular culture -- Sex, death, clowns and crippled children -- Folk magick, crypto-Masonry, and holding it -- Epilogue. |
| Subject |
Secret societies -- United States -- History -- Miscellanea.
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Secret societies -- United States -- Influence.
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Brotherhoods -- United States -- History -- Miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Heimbichner, Craig.
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Coleman, Loren.
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| ISBN |
9781936239146 |
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1936239140 |
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