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Cults, Conspiracies, And Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop On Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull And Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, And Many, Many More (2009)

by Arthur Goldwag(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307390675 (ISBN13: 9780307390677)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Vintage

review 1: Meh. It's a little 1970s heavy, and focused a great deal on Zionist suspicions, which is but one flavor of the crazy. He tries to draw a lot of connections, and they are there, but it's tough to depict the paranoid webs AND the ways they influence each other without beginning to sound crazy one's self. I might have liked it better if it hadn't been 90-100 degrees this week, which just takes the fun out of most things. Having taught both urban legends and the cultural paranoia class, I wasn't really his audience. He's giving a broad, generalist overview and I've got too much fore-knowledge for that to be maximally entertaining.
review 2: The lengthy title and subtitle of Arthur Goldwag's book, "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Fr... moreeemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more," belies the brevity with which he addresses most of the myriad subjects between the book's covers. It's true even a mildly avid researcher can find on the Internet or in a public library or well-stocked bookstore vast amounts of exhaustively detailed material devoted to each of the subjects Goldwag surveys in his book. This is the advantage, rather than disadvantage, of Goldwag's approach. Goldwag's book supplies only the tantalizing breadcrumbs. He leaves it for the reader to follow the trail if she's hungry to find more information on the matters that interest her, many of which she may never had known of before exploring Goldwag's work. Goldwag's writing is savvy, crisp and clean, often tongue-in-cheek, and he's not afraid to voice his personal opinion on some of the wackier Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies featured in his book. It's a quick, informative and entertaining read, which I believe is exactly what the author intended. less

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