The Craft
How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
$23.75
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
10 August 2021
Summary
‘Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining’ - Wall Street Journal
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473658226 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473658225 |
| Author: | John Dickie |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 10 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 40mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
This eye-opening account… is an epic, continent-spanning story that reaches right into the present.
This eye-opening account… is an epic, continent-spanning story that reaches right into the present. * History Revealed *‘Dickie’s book acts as a soothing balm for these irritated, irritating and irritable times… startling… distinctly refreshing… astonishing… Dickie laces his text with enough bizarre characters to pull the reader through, and his no-nonsense tone is a tonic.’ * Standpoint magazine *‘A work that is sweeping, synthetic, finely crafted and freshly conceived.’ * Literary Review *
About The Author
John Dickie
John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College London. Hodder & Stoughton published his Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia in 2004, to ecstatic reviews. It became an international bestseller, with over 20 translations, and won the CWA Dagger Award for Non-fiction that year. Since then he has published Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and their Food (2007) - now a six-part TV series for HIstory Channel Italia and other networks worldwide. His most recent books are Mafia Brotherhoods (2011) and Mafia Republic: Italy’s Criminal Curse (2013).
In 2005 the President of the Italian Republic appointed him a Commendatore dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana.
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