The craft : how Freemasons made the modern world / John Dickie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickie, John, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freemasons.

Freemasonry.

Freemasonry--History.

History.

Physical Description:

487 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Other Title:

Craft : how the Freemasons made the modern world

How Freemasons made the modern world

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, 2020.

Summary:

"During the Scottish Reformation, when kings, princes, and popes were being toppled from their thrones, a new and secretive society was formed. The Freemasonry's fixed rules, suggesting a connection to an ancient wisdom and known only to its initiates, attracted many antagonists, including the Roman Catholic Church, but also attracted a diverse range of members, from tradesman, merchants, actors, lawyers, Jews, and even people of color. The Craft is a vibrant, revelatory history of the Freemasons, their core ideas, and its members, including revolutionaries (Giuseppe Garibaldi, Simón Bolívar, Motilal Nehru, and George Washington), rulers (five of England and no fewer than fourteen U.S. Presidents), and luminaries (Arthur Conan Doyle, Goethe, Mozart, Shaquille O'Neal, Harry Houdini, Henry Ford, Buzz Aldrin, and Walt Disney the Duke of Wellington, Duke Ellington, and more). John Dickie captures the mystique of Masonic secrecy, and shows why its history is too important and too compelling to be the exclusive property of the initiated as Freemasonry has had a role in shaping the world for all of us"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Lisbon: John Coustos's Secrets

2. Nowhere: The Strange Death of Hiram Abiff

3. Edinburgh: The Art of Memorie

4. London: At the Sign of the Goose and Gridiron

5. Paris: War on Christ and His Cult; War on Kings and All Their Thrones

6. Naples: A Raving Sickness

7. Washington: A Lodge for the Virtues

8. Charleston: Africans were the Authors of this Mysterious and Beautiful Order

9. Rome-Paris: The Devil in the Nineteenth Century

10. Allahabad: Mother Lodges of the Empire

11. Hamburg: De Profundis

12. Rome: Roasting the Bedraggled Chicken

13. Munich: The Beer-Hall Strategy

14. Salamanca: Hyenas And Concubines

15. New York: A Golden American Century Closes

16. Arezzo: The Man Who Would Be Puppet-Master

17. Legacies.

Notes:

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2020 by Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-476) and index.

ISBN:

9781610398671

161039867X

OCLC:

1130696586