Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy Tots_Gift_Guide featuring a heroine whose harrowing

featuring a heroine whose harrowing and wondrous journey culminates in an emotionally resonant finale

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Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy Tots_Gift_Guide featuring a heroine whose harrowingFrom beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, the Illuminati, and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives that defines the United States is simply this: