- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Collins & Brown; paperback / softback edition (10 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843402890
- ISBN-13: 978-1843402893
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 536,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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...academic...entertaining...Porter's book traces the genealogy of the Illuminati myth.
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What links an 18th-century president of Yale, an inter-war aristocratic Nazi sympathizer, a McCarthy-era anticommunist zealot and the former editor of Playboy? How are the origins of the French Revolution, the murder of the Romanovs, the design of the dollar bill and alien abductions connected? The answer lies with one of the world's most mysterious, feared and arguably, maligned secret societies - the Illuminati. References to the Illuminati span centuries, millennia even, yet the group actually existed for little over a decade. So why are they said to be behind the world's greatest conspiracies? For nearly 250 years references to the Illuminati and their alleged influence on major world world events have continued to resurface. There are those who claim the Illuminati are much older than their first recorded incarnation suggests, dating their origins to the time of the pyramids, and others who believe the group is literally not of this planet but part of an alien culture bent on taking over the earth. This book looks at the reality and the myths, questions the allegations and explores how fears about the group have taken many different forms, whether fear of intellectuals during the Enlightenment, or fear of communists during the McCarthy era. An Internet search reveals that belief in the group's shadowy influence is as active as ever - what does that say about us today? And are we right to be afraid?
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17 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you've done a little bit of research on the Illuminati and the NWO, you'll see that this book is just a feeble attempt at whitewashing the truth (yet another one!). It basically argues that it's ALL a myth. I found it really boring and unconvincing - at best it can serve as a list for more interesting books as the author mentions quite a few of them in order to slag them off (in a rather unsubstantial way). Definitely not worth spending money on..
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book provides a fascinating account of the historical origin of conspiracy-minded tales of the Illuminati. If you've read Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons or come across any websites warning about the coming New World Order, you might be forgiven for thinking that these conspiracy rumours are grounded in solid historical fact (as Brown asserts) or have only recently been discovered. But Porter shows how, over the last couple of centuries, many parts of the Illuminati legend were invented by a series of dodgy characters that included aristocratic Nazi sympathisers and rabid anticommunists. Even more damning, important elements of the myth were part of an elaborate spoof written by pranksters of the 1960s (also the case with elements of The Da Vinci Code). What's important about this book is that it shows how conspiracy theories about the Illuminati often reveal more about the people who believe in them than about the supposed hidden sources of power. Porter's book is well written, sorting the wheat from the chaff in the historical record, as well as offering user-friendly guides to the political context in which each episode of fear-mongering emerged.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having read numerous books on this subject over the past years I have finally found a book that has stopped short of accusing and critisizing Illuminati as the conspirators that 'run' the world and explained what they did. The history of the Illuminati is so different from the run of the mill rumours you will hear from right wing religionists and gives an insight into what the Illuminati had in their agenda. This book has the potential to change your view on the Illuminati once and for all. I urge you to read this.
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