Actions for Occult America : the secret history of how mysticism shaped our nation

Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Occult America : the secret history of how mysticism shaped our nation / Mitch Horowitz

Author
Horowitz, Mitch
Published
New York : Bantam Books, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
290 pages ; 22 cm

Availability

Browse Nearby on Shelf
I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Contents
Introduction: What is the occult? (and what is it doing in America?) -- The psychic highway -- Mystic Americans -- Don't try this at home : Ouija and the selling of spiritualism -- The science of right thinking -- The mail-order prophet -- Go tell pharaoh : the rise of magic in Afro-America -- The return of the "secret teachings" -- New deal of the ages : politics and the occult -- The masters among us -- Secrets for sale -- "The greatest mystic who ever lived in America" -- Epilogue: Aquarius rising : the new age dawns.
Summary
From the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board,"Occult America" briskly sweeps from the nation's earliest days of mystical and esoteric movements to the birth of the New Age era, tracing the many people and episodes that continue to exert such a powerful pull on the public today.
Subject(s)
ISBN
9780553806755 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0553806750 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 5518737