
The Craft
How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
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Narrado por:
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Simon Slater
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John Dickie
Insiders call it the Craft.
Discover the fascinating true story of one of the most influential and misunderstood secret brotherhoods in modern society.
Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades it had spread across the globe. Masonic influence became pervasive. Under George Washington, the Craft became a creed for the new American nation. Masonic networks held the British empire together. Under Napoleon, the Craft became a tool of authoritarianism and then a cover for revolutionary conspiracy. Both the Mormon Church and the Sicilian mafia owe their origins to Freemasonry.
Yet the Masons were as feared as they were influential. In the eyes of the Catholic Church, Freemasonry has always been a den of devil-worshippers. For Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco, the Lodges spread the diseases of pacifism, socialism, and Jewish influence and so had to be crushed.
Freemasonry's story yokes together Winston Churchill and Walt Disney; Wolfgang Mozart and Shaquille O'Neal; Benjamin Franklin and Buzz Aldrin; Rudyard Kipling and "Buffalo Bill" Cody; Duke Ellington and the duke of Wellington.
John Dickie's The Craft is an enthralling exploration of a the world's most famous and misunderstood secret brotherhood, a movement that not only helped to forge modern society, but has substantial contemporary influence, with 400,000 members in Britain, more than a million in the USA, and around six million across the world.
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"Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining." —The Wall Street Journal
"[John Dickie] takes on this sensational subject with a wry turn of phrase and the cool judgment of a fine historian... I enjoyed this book enormously. Dickie's gaze is both wide and penetrating. He makes a persuasive case for masonry's historic importance." —Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
"The Craft is a shadow history of modernity. Though more sober than most lodge meetings, it is, like its subject, ingenious and frequently bizarre... The Craft is well-crafted and sensible, making good use of English archives which have only recently been opened."—Spectator
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The best book about Freemasonry out there.
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enjoyed this book very much. highly recommend
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Finally, it was good to demystify an exaggerated influence of the Craft in the world.
Ok book
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FULL!]
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Well-written, well-narrated
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Well sourced
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A bit of a mixed bag
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The author barely touches any of the great achievements of brother Freemasons and in most cases they are simply omitted.
If you want to read a study in judging people of the past by today’s standards then this book is for you. If you want a history of Freemasonry than look elsewhere as there are much better and more accurate histories than this.
Disappointing
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True knowledge of history
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Great story, with spit
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