The Secret

Sora, Steven: SECRET SOCIETIES OF AMERICA'S ELITE : FROM THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR TO SKULL AND BONES, Rochester, Vermont, U.S.A. Destiny Books 2003
0892819596 Brand New Condition

Soft Cover. Brand New. 6 x 9". An expose of the dark and critical role secret societies play within the ruling families in America and their influence on American democracy, current events, and world history. * Reveals the enormous influence secret societies still have on contemporary American life.* Shows how the secret Masonic cells that smuggled in the democratic ideals inspiring the American Revolution also enabled the future elite of the new society to build huge fortunes. Elite and secret societies have always been a major force in the history of Western civilization. The alliances formed in secret societies such as the Knights Templar, the Knights of Christ, and the Freemasons transcended patriotism and religious beliefs and had a powerful influence on the establishment of the United States of America. While these secret associations of merchants, smugglers, occultists, gamblers, spies, and slavers succeeded in freeing the United States from foreign domination, the dark side is that the elite used their secret connections to further their own wealth and power. These secret cells did not hesitate to sponsor the assassination of a president and even attempted to break up the union on several occasions when it was deemed expedient. From the Sons of Liberty and the Essex Junto to the Ku Klux Klan, secret societies have played critical roles in building the fortunes of America's elite. Now Steven Sora reveals in alarming detail how secretive societies continue to wield power even today as organizations such as Yale's Skull & Bones unite America's modern ruling families as strongly as Masonic Lodges once connected the Astors, Livingstons, and Roosevelts. Their immense power and wealth allow this elite to control America to an even greater degree than the Templars once dominated Europe. About the Author: Steven Sora has been researching historical enigmas since 1982 and is the author of The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar. 324 pages, well-researched!.

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Harding, Robert (ed) - A Harcourt Burrage, E. Collins, F. Lloyd-Owen, Captain H. A. Lego, Kenneth Farnes, Gunby Hadath, Frank Ellas, Ian Miller, Maragaret Baines Reed, Robert Harding, Arthur Catherall, Charles Walker, Geoffrey Trease, Kenneth Farnes, ++++: The Boy's Own Annual - Volume Sixty-Two (62) 1939 - 40, A Tale of the Indian Secret Service, Marsden's Chance, Law of the Mounties, Challenged, Secret of Walrus Island, The Bull Patrol, Ken Carries on, Abdul Rahman's Gift, +++ London R. T. S. - Lutter Worth Press 1939
Very Good Raymond Sheppard, Edgar Spenceley

- Red cloth with white and black design and lettering on boards, tight square and clean, 504 pages + 4 colour plates, minor edge wear, ink name on title page, light ripples on colour plates, page 259-60 neatly cut out, dealt with Coins. Contents include: Law of the Mounties by Philip H. Godsell / Challenged by Wallace Carr / Bob Staikland's Log by Percy F. Westerman / Secret of Walrus Island by William MacMillan / Scouting Yarns (The Bull Patrol) by Arthur Catherall / Joe Stoker Wins His Spurs by Charles Walker / Ken Carries On by Geoffrey Trease / Abdul Rahman's Gift by Major J. T. Gorman / The Swanker by Gunby Hadath / Dumb Heroes of the Battle-Line by Arhtur Nettleton / Glen Sees it Through by J. M. Gilroy / Headache for Two by H. J. Way / In the Wake of Bold Robin Hood by Sydney Moorhouse / The Luck of O'Moy by E. Collins / The Trap by F. Lloyd-Owen / Starvation on the High Seas by Captain H. A Lego / The Secret of Fast Bowling by Kenneth Farnes / In Search of a Kingdom by Gunby Hadath / The Spy and the Ship by Frank Ellas / Bwana Nyoka - Mister Snake by Ian Miller / The Faithful Traitor - A story of the days of Robert Bruce by Margaret Baines Reed / The Letter - A Tale of the Indian Secret Service by Robert Harding / Alfred, the Cake Burner by A Harcourt Burrage, illustrated by Edgar Spenceley / Making "Braves" by Philip H. Godsell / Marsden's Chance by W. H. Dobson / Plus many, many, many more. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo First Edition No Jacket Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

[SW: - Red cloth with white and black design and lettering on boards, tight square and clean, 504 pages + 4 colour plates, minor edge wear, ink name on title page, light ripples on colour plates, page 259-60 neatly cut out, dealt with Coins. Contents include: Law of the Mounties by Philip H. Godsell / Challenged by Wallace Carr / Bob Staikland's Log by Percy F. Westerman / Secret of Walrus Island by William MacMillan / Scouting Yarns (The Bull Patrol) by Arthur Catherall / Joe Stoker Wins His Spurs by Charles Walker / Ken Carries On by Geoffrey Trease / Abdul Rahman's Gift by Major J. T. Gorman / The Swanker by Gunby Hadath / Dumb Heroes of the Battle-Line by Arhtur Nettleton / Glen Sees it Through by J. M. Gilroy / Headache for Two by H. J. Way / In the Wake of Bold Robin Hood by Sydney Moorhouse / The Luck of O'Moy by E. Collins / The Trap by F. Lloyd-Owen / Starvation on the High Seas by Captain H. A Lego / The Secret of Fast Bowling by Kenneth Farnes / In Search of a Kingdom by Gunby Hadath / The Spy and the Ship by Frank Ellas / Bwana Nyoka - Mister Snake by Ian Miller / The Faithful Traitor - A story of the days of Robert Bruce by Margaret Baines Reed / The Letter - A Tale of the Indian Secret Service by Robert Harding / Alfred, the Cake Burner by A Harcourt Burrage, illustrated by Edgar Spenceley / Making "Braves" by Philip H. Godsell / Marsden's Chance by W. H. Dobson / Plus many, many, many more. Fantasy and Science Fiction]

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PERSICO, JOSEPH: ROOSEVELT'S SECRET WAR : FDR AND WORLD WAR II ESPIONAGE, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. Random House Trade Paperbacks 2002
0375761268 As New Condition

Joseph E. Persico presents FDR as one of America's great spymasters. "Few leaders were better adapted temperamentally to espionage than Franklin Roosevelt," writes Persico, author of Nuremberg and Colin Powell's autobiographical collaborator. "FDR compartmentalized information, misled associates, manipulated people, conducted intrigues, used private lines of communication, scattered responsibility, duplicated assignments, provoked rivalries, held the cards while showing few, and left few fingerprints." He was a kind of principled Machiavellian who hoped to achieve several clear ends, such as getting the United States into the Second World War, even though most of the public wanted nothing to do with it (before Pearl Harbor). FDR then pursued these goals with the fervor of an opportunist: "the devious route to a desirable goal; inconstant behavior directed toward constant ends; the warship hiding behind a smoke screen but steered by a moral compass." A good example of this is his relationship with the celebrated aviator Charles Lindbergh. Roosevelt asked J. Edgar Hoover to keep tabs on Lindbergh because he was a critic of the administration, and FDR suspected he was a closeted Nazi (not true, but perhaps an understandable opinion). Roosevelt's Secret War reveals how FDR created a huge intelligence operation and then ran it--he "built espionage into the structure of American government," says Persico. There were plenty of successes (Roosevelt knew about Hitler's plans to invade Russia before they did it), but also failings: Soviet agents burrowed into FDR's administration at the highest levels. One of the best sections of the book addresses a perennial question: Did FDR know the Japanese were about to bomb Pearl Harbor and let them do it because he believed the sneak attack would propel the public into supporting war against the Axis powers? Persico argues that FDR didn't know: "The clues seem to lead to that conclusion like lights on a well-marked runway." He makes a convincing case that "Pearl Harbor was a catastrophe, not a conspiracy." Roosevelt's Secret War is a unique contribution to our understanding of FDR--no other book treats America's longest-serving president as a spymaster--and it will appeal to readers interested in the Second World War and the cloak-and-dagger world of espionage. --John Miller--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description: Despite all that has already been written on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime leadership: his involvement in intelligence and espionage operations. Roosevelt's Secret War is crowded with remarkable revelations: -FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor -A defector from Hitler's inner circle reported directly to the Oval Office -Roosevelt knew before any other world leader of Hitler's plan to invade Russia -Roosevelt and Churchill concealed a disaster costing hundreds of British soldiers' lives in order to protect Ultra, the British codebreaking secret -An unwitting Japanese diplomat provided the President with a direct pipeline into Hitler's councils Roosevelt's Secret War also describes how much FDR had been told--before the Holocaust--about the coming fate of Europe's Jews. And Persico also provides a definitive answer to the perennial question Did FDR know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor? By temperament and character, no American president was better suited for secret warfare than FDR. He manipulated, compartmentalized, dissembled, and misled, demonstrating a spymaster's talent for intrigue. He once remarked, "I never let my right hand know what my left hand does." Not only did Roosevelt create America's first central intelligence agency, the OSS, under "Wild Bill" Donovan, but he ran spy rings directly from the Oval Office, enlisting well-placed socialite friends. FDR was also spied against. Roosevelt's Secret War presents evidence that t Paperback - Softcover 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches

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Tim Green. The Fourth Perimeter. Grand Central Publishing, 20030201
0446612510 Amazon Review Wealthy, high-tech entrepreneur Kurt Ford, once a Secret Service agent, doesn't believe that his son, an active agent himself, committed suicide. Using his money and connections, his knowledge of the inner workings of the Secret Service charged with guarding the nation's chief executive, and the computer technology at his command, Ford uncovers a link between a mysterious midnight meeting held by the president and the untimely deaths of the other agents on duty with his son that night. Even worse, he finds evidence pointing to one chilling conclusion: that the president himself had a hand in his son's murder. Vowing to make him pay, Ford uses his thorough knowledge of the Secret Service to undertake an attempt to kill the president and to live to enjoy his revenge, something no other presidential assassin has ever accomplished. And author Tim Green uses his own understanding of how the Secret Service goes about its mission to make the most of a riveting plot, which will give readers who've come to understand and empathize with Ford some extremely tense moments. It's hard not to cast this in one's mind as a movie; it's a juicy, action-packed story with a complex central character that has Harrison Ford written all over it. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly If Green was as obvious on the football field as he is in the writing of his latest thriller (after The Letter of the Law), his NFL career would have been a lot shorter. The first clue to what's going on in this story about a former Secret Service agent trying to investigate and avenge the death of his son comes early on, followed almost immediately by three more thuddingly obvious markers. Any chance they will prove to be red herrings quickly disappears: they are all exactly what they seem to be. Too bad, because the basic premise is sound and promising: Kurt Ford, former Secret Service agent and successful computer entrepreneur, knows his beloved son, Collin, better than anyone, and is ready to stake his life on the certainty that Collin an able and ambitious Secret Service agent himself would never commit suicide, as the Washington, D.C., police have concluded. So when a former rival within the Treasury Department, David Claiborne, contacts Kurt secretly and tells him that two other Secret Service agents have also died under mysterious circumstances, it's definitely possible that all three agents witnessed something they shouldn't have when they accompanied the president to a clandestine meeting at a Maryland farmhouse. As Kurt uses his own experience to plan a private vendetta, fans of Green's previous books might hope for and certainly deserve a few more plot twists and a much more interesting resolution. Instead, they are served up an all too predictable finale. 3-city author tour. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title..

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