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New York : Dorset Press, 1990, c1989.
Description
An investigation of Freemasonry which studies such areas as Freemasonry's religious and occult elements, the police and the underworld, the armed forces and charities. The author asks if it can make or break careers and whether it inculcates moral values in its members.
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LibraryThing member TheoClarke
A partisan assault on English Freemasonry that starts from a position of hostiliy and seeks to demonstrate that a few unethical Masons are representative of the whole organisation. Belligerent Freemasons only served to reinforce Short's poor opinion of the Craft but the heart of his argument is
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that if some members of an organisation behave inappropriately, the entire organization and its membership are malign. Short's own publishers serve him ill by misrepresenting the contents of the book on the dustjacket to sensationalise the work: the back cover starts "Inside The Brotherhood reveals the true facts behind allegations regarding Freemasonry's involvement in the death of Stephen Knight" while inside Short states that "an aggressive brain tumour had destroyed [King] in one excruciating year". Show Less
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Original publication date
1989
Physical description
viii, 531 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0880295848 / 9780880295840
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