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Discover the "accurately documented and highly entertaining" (_The Wall Street Journal_) history of the world's oldest and most influential fraternities. Founded in London in 1717 as a means of uniting men, Freemasonry quickly spread throughout the world within two decades. Under George Washington, Freemasonry became a doctrine for the new American nation. During the reign of Napoleon, it turned into an instrument of tyranny and a cover for revolutionary conspiracies. Later, Freemasonry was credited with founding both the Mormon Church and the Sicilian Mafia. However, the Freemasons were as feared as they were influential, as the Catholic Church considered them a den of Satanism. As for Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco, the forums spread the diseases of pacifism, socialism, and Jewish influence, so they had to be crushed. The history of Freemasonry links such prominent figures as Winston Churchill and Walt Disney, Wolfgang Mozart and Shaquille O'Neal, Benjamin Franklin and Buzz Aldrin. John Dickey's The Craft is a captivating exploration of the world's most famous and misunderstood secret brotherhood, a movement that not only helped shape modern society, but remains prominent today.