ISBN Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies

Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies

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.


About author(s)
Arthur Goldwag is the author of The Beliefnet Guide to Kabbalah, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies; -Isms and -Ologies; and The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and family.