The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World

Synopsis

Discover the “convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining” (the wall street journal) history of the world’s oldest and most influential fraternity 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. Under george washington, the craft became a creed for the new american nation. Under napoleon, it became a tool of authoritarianism and a cover for revolutionary conspiracy. Later, both the mormon church and the sicilian mafia would owe their origins to freemasonry.