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Secret societies of America's elite : from the Knights Templar to Skull and Bones / Steven Sora.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sora, Steven, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secret societies--United States.
- Secret societies.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 324 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, Vt. : Destiny Books, [2002]
- Summary:
- Secret societies have played critical roles in building the fortunes of America's elite. They continue to wield power even today as organizations such as Yale's Skull & Bones unite America's modern ruling families as strongly as Masonic Lodges once connected the Astors, Livingstons, and Roosevelts.
- Contents:
- The new world order
- Brothers to pirates and corsairs
- Under a black flag
- Skeletons in the closet
- Smugglers, patriots, and Masons
- Franklin and the Masonic underground
- The merchants of war
- The bribe that won the war
- One nation under the great architect
- The slave traders
- Red cross and black cargo
- Master Masons and their slaves
- The Masonic betrayal
- The opium brotherhood
- From the lodge to the den
- Wealth : the legacy of the opium trade
- The legacy : the power of the new Skull and Bones.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0892819596
- OCLC:
- 51009327
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