Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies
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Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies by Arthur Goldwag
Did you know?* Freemasonry's first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its members.
* The Knights Templar began as impoverished warrior monks then evolved into bankers.
* Groom Lake, Dreamland, Homey Airport, Paradise Ranch, The Farm, Watertown Strip, Red Square, "The Box," are all names for Area 51.
An indispensable guide, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies connects the dots and sets the record straight on a host of greedy gurus and murderous messiahs, crepuscular cabals and suspicious coincidences. Some topics are familiar--the Kennedy assassinations, the Bilderberg Group, the Illuminati, the People's Temple and Heaven's Gate--and some surprising, like Oulipo, a select group of intellectuals who created wild formulas for creating literary masterpieces, and the Chauffeurs, an eighteenth-century society of French home invaders, who set fire to their victims' feet.
Arthur Goldwag, a freelance writer and editor for more than twenty years, has worked at Book-ofthe-Month Club, where he created Traditions, a club devoted to Jewish interests, as well as at Random House and The New York Review of Books.Michael Lewis is the author of several bestselling books, including Liar's Poker (#1 New York Times national bestseller in both hardcover and paperback), based in part on his own experience working as an investment banker for Salomon Brothers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307390677 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307390675 |
| Title | Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies |
| Author | Arthur Goldwag |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2009-08-11 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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