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Secrets
of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the
Hidden Paths of Power by
Alexandra Robbins
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- Hardcover: 240 pages ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.93 x 9.39 x 6.11
- Publisher: Little Brown &
Company; ; 1st edition (September 2002)
- ISBN: 0316720917
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Secrets of the Tomb by Alexandra Robbins
Book
Description
The Ivy
League is full of societies and clubs, some public and some very
private. But none is as secret as Yale's Skull and Bones, a
tiny, mysterious society that has somehow spawned three U.S.
presidents, including William Howard Taft, George W. Bush, and
his father.
Skull
and Bones' cloak-and-dagger secrecy has prompted people
worldwide to attribute to it some of the most staggering
conspiracies in modern history-as well as events including the
drop of the atom bomb, the rise of Hitler, and the invasion of
the Bay of Pigs.
From
their nearly windowless crypt in the middle of the Yale campus,
the Bonesmen, it is said, plot to dominate the world.
In SECRETS OF THE TOMB, acclaimed
journalist Alexandra Robbins slips through the veil of secrecy
to investigate, through society documents and interviews with
dozens of members, the truth about Skull and Bones' influence
and operations.
She also explains why this old-boy
19th-century throwback, a product of another time, still thrives
in 21st-century America.
Sure to cause a major media
sensation, SECRETS OF THE TOMB will lift the curtain on this Ivy
League Oz.
The Ivy League is full of societies
and clubs, some public and some very private.
But none is as secret as Yale's
Skull and Bones, a tiny, mysterious society that has spawned
three U.S. presidents, including William H. Taft, George W.
Bush, and his father.
Skull and Bones' cloak-and-dagger
secrecy has prompted people worldwide to attribute to it some
of the most staggering conspiracies in modern history-as well
as events including the drop of the atom bomb, the rise of
Hitler, and the invasion of the Bay of Pigs.
From their nearly windowless crypt
in the middle of the Yale campus, the Bonesmen, it is said,
plot to dominate the world.
In Secrets of the Tomb, acclaimed
journalist Alexandra Robbins slips through the veil of secrecy
to investigate, through society documents and interviews with
dozens of members, the truth about Skull and Bones' influence
and operations. She also explains why this old-boy 19th
century throwback, a product of another time, still thrives in
21st-century America.
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