Ask most Americans where the country’s origins lie and they’ll point to the Mayflower and its settlers—whom we often think of as the earliest arrivals to our shores. But something existed even before that: Jamestown. Its founders had thoroughly different values than the Puritans, and their Masonic beliefs indelibly shaped America’s future. This authoritative, accessible, and absorbing history takes a fresh look at the past to reveal the truth about why the United States is now run by Freemasons who are Christians, too. Drawing on original findings, and exhibiting a rich, in-depth understanding of the political and philosophical realities of the time, acclaimed author Nicholas Hagger argues that the new nation, conceived in liberty, was the Freemasons’ first step towards a new world order. He charts the connections between secret societies and libertarian ideals, explains how the influence of German Illuminati worked on the framers of the new republic, and shows the hand of Freemasonry at work at every turning point in America’s history—from the Civil War to the Cold War to today’s global struggles for democracy. It’s a fascinating subject, and one that will also be at the center of Dan Brown’s next book—so interest is sure to be high and the tie-in potential immense.
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Nicholas Hagger has lectured at universities in Baghdad, Tokyo, and Tripoli (Libya); written for the London Times; and written more than 20 books of history, literature and philosophy, including a study of the founding, rise and fall of civilizations. He has appeared frequently on television and radio and in newspapers, speaking on the founding of America. For seven years he owned the house in Suffolk where the Jamestown settlement is thought to have been planned.
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Real History,
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This review is from: The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, & the Battle for The New World (Hardcover)
This book really explains the real history of the United States and the world.Its unlike many of the conspiracy theories out there which may not back up much of what they claim.This book describes much of the hidden history of the United States in detail. Much of this information has seldom been heard before. The first parts of the book are a bit tedious though they provide much of the background for the formation of Freemasonry in the United States. Once past the first parts, though the book is a real pleasure to read.
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Buyer beware,
This review is from: The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, & the Battle for The New World (Paperback)
I began this book thinking the history interesting. Although the repeated comments about "possible Freemasonic faction" concerned me, since there were no records to support these "possibilities". I wondered if I was being sucked into anti-Masonic drivel. Still there was potential for some of his ideas to be accurate, though not provable. After 80 pages he made some attempts to explain these Masonic factions but drew too many conclusions not based in fact. Still, I found his early chapter on the settling of America interesting particularly concerning the Deists and the Founding Fathers. At this stage of his work when he quoted Paine, Franklin, Washington, Jefferson ect, the sources actually pointed to things these men said. The book is plausible in many ways until we reach page 128 and the German Illuminati. He quotes Weishaupt concerning nationalism and its ills, and the quote seems to have come from Weishaupt and was a really good point. After this he quotes the nefarious plots of Weishaupt, (at which point I started checking his sources as I thought it odd that Weishaupt would have written down his secret plans and left them where they could be found) from here on every terrible offense supposedly committed by the Freemasons, whether direct quotes or otherwise are primarily sourced from 3 conspiracy writers (Still, Rivera and Daniel), when you don't count the times he quotes himself. Now Hagger moves deeper into fantasy and I began to wonder if anything he had written thus far was accurate. When Hagger begins to quote Pike, again we find that he is not actually quoting Pike but these other "authors" (I use the term loosely). When Hagger asserts that Pike wrote "that Lucifer is the God of the Freemasons", again he quotes Still not Pike, but this time goes a step further to provide Still's source (something he rarely did) this source was none other than Leo Taxil, a conman and self professed liar. Taxil wrote extensively on evil Freemasonry at the end of the 1800's on behalf of the Catholic Church, which hated Freemasonry. When pressured to bring forth his sources, Taxil who had made a fortune from the church for his efforts, confessed before a large audience that he had made up everything and explained that his purpose was to make money and ultimately embarrass the Catholic Church while at the same time sticking it to Freemasons. Taxil called it a joke. Although all that Taxil said was a lie anti-Masons still love to use Taxils "information" to denounce Freemasonry. Hagger shows that he has no understanding of Freemasonry's structure (easily found in many books and webpages), and repeatedly points to men he calls 33rd degree Masons at a time when the Scottish Rite had only 27 degrees. He also names many other so called 33rd degree Masons (from a time when there were such) with not one lick of evidence sourced. I could go on but I hope you get the idea. The last 50 pages of this book is pure crap although a few nuggets of truth might be found here and there. There are powerful interests that control the world, but they hide behind people like Hagger who are always pointing fingers in the wrong directions to distract people who believe whatever they say and are not smart enough to check sources for themselves. Quoting as fact things that other people make up is not viable historical research. I am only glad that I bought this book used and my money did not go to this author.
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Not worth it,
This review is from: The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, & the Battle for The New World (Paperback)
Any history of America that starts by referring to the discovery of the site of James Fort with a comparison to Schliemann's discovery of Troy is not a serious history book.Troy was assumed to be a myth - as in the Greek gods were a myth. We may not have known exactly where James Fort was located, but no one doubted it had been there. No one thought the Jamestown settlers landed on some mythic spot which was instantly wrapped back up in mist like Brigadon. His next contention is he has brilliantly discovered that the man whose house he has recently bought was the actual true father of Jamestown and not that pirate John Smith. Well, pirate or not, John Smith was on site and kept them from starving to death. To me that's like saying Jules Verne, not Neil Armstrong, was the first man on the moon. Important yes, first, no. To be honest, my first thought was he's figured out a way to make the purchase of his home a work deduction for tax purposes. If you can find it second hand, it's worth the laugh.
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