THE VEILED PROPHET: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggles for St.Louis by Devin Thomas O'Shea, Haymarket Books 6/26
THE VEILED PROPHET: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggles for St. Louis by DEVIN THOMAS O'SHEA. ( Haymarket Books, 6/26) What was the Veiled Prophet Society? And why might we care about a secret society (now defunct) founded a century and a half ago in St. Louis? Devin Thomas O'Shea's excellent and little-known history, THE VEILED PROPHET : Secret Societies, white supremacy, and the struggle for St. Louis clarifies how this "prestige brokerage" strongly affected U.S. History and modern political structures. In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, when Gen Lee surrendered at Appomattox, disillusioned Confederate soldiers, including future Veiled Profit founder, Alonzo Slayback, went looting in Mexico. Their loss of the Southern way of life included property both human...