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Overview

Ask most Americans where the country’s origins lie and they’ll point to the Mayflower and its settlers—whom we often think of as the earliest arrivals to our shores. But something existed even before that: Jamestown. Drawing on original findings and an in-depth understanding of the political and philosophical realities of the time, The Secret Founding of America charts the connections between secret societies and libertarian ideals, explains the influence of the German Illuminati, and shows the hand of Freemasonry at work at every turning point in America’s history, from the Civil War to the Cold War to today’s global struggles for democracy. This authoritative, accessible, and absorbing history takes a fresh look at the past to reveal the truth about the founding of America.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781842931400
  • Publisher: Watkins Publishing
  • Publication date: 5/1/2007
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 1,245,592
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Nicholas Hagger has lectured at universities around the world; written for the London Times; and written more than 20 books of history, literature, and philosophy, including a study of the founding, rise, and fall of civilizations. He has appeared frequently on television and radio and in newspapers, speaking on the founding of America.

Table of Contents

Picture Acknowledgements viii

Introduction: Skeleton of a Planting Father xi

Part 1 The Planters: Who Apparently Founded America?

Chapter 1 English Separatists in Plymouth, Puritans in Massachusetts 2

Chapter 2 English Anglicans in Virginia and Chesapeake Bay 27

Chapter 3 Spanish Catholics in Florida 63

Part 2 Who Really Founded America?

Chapter 4 Freemasons in Virginia and Massachusetts 84

Chapter 5 Enlightenment Deists in New England 107

Chapter 6 German Illuminati 128

Part 3 Consequences of the Founders' Vision

Chapter 7 A Freemasonic State 146

Chapter 8 Freemasonry's Battle for America 171

Chapter 9 The Freemasonic State Today 187

Appendices: Constitutional Documents

I John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charitie, 1630 205

II Fundamental Orders of 1639 220

III Anderson's Constitutions, 1723 225

IV Albany Plan of Union, 1754 231

V Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 235

VI The Articles of Confederation, 1781 242

VII The Federal Constitution, 1787 253

VIII The Bill of Rights, 15 December 1791 267

IX George Washington's Masonic Record, 1752-99 278

Chart: History of Freemasonry/Secret Organizations 282

Notes and Sources 284

Bibliography 307

Index 313

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  • Posted June 12, 2010

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    Don't-Believe-Everything-You-Read Applies

    First, organization and style make this a difficult read. The first third is a reverse-chronology of colonial settlement, often devolving into a rambling rapid-fire of who killed whom where. Names, locations, and religious sects are hurled at the reader like an arrow barrage, sprinkled with teasers - was this player from a rival Freemason faction, etc. - long before Freemasonry's origins and stance are even discussed. Hagger simply presumes you'll keep up.

    The primer is then followed by a less postulating Freemasons-run-all history of America. Up to the Constitution, some of it's believable. An acceptable argument is made that many patriots were Freemasons and deists who believed in religious freedom vice Christianity in particular, as supported by their church practices, education, and preferences in art and literature.

    Yet we're also acquainted with the layout of D.C., symbols on the dollar bill, etc., and from there things get hard to swallow. For because of the accepted degrees of secrecy in its hierarchy, supposedly even the Founding Fathers didn't grasp the true agenda: a world government, re-establishment of the Jerusalem kings, and thanks to a radical Germanic sect, worship of Satan. The U.S. was merely to be a Utopian Atlantis, strong only long enough to wipe out religion through tolerance. There's paradox and a long-term jihad-mindset everywhere.

    Hagger says the Constitution is simply the imprinting of the Freemason lodge system on our country, led silently (he doesn't say why) by Washington. Somehow, this equals thirteen united colonies. While the Masonic 13 supposedly figures into the U.S. seal (the French burned a Templar on Friday the 13th centuries ago), how we got to precisely 13 original colonies isn't even broached, nor how a wasp's nest of secret societies compares to a bicameral legislature and three government branches.

    Then comes the chapter on the Rothschild's funding of the Civil War, where virtually everyone but Lincoln, including his assassin was a Freemason, followed by a treatise where Freemasons and offshoots (essentially treated as one and the same) have run everything from WWII and the Cold War to the U.S., Soviet Bloc, and everything in-between. We're to accept or conclude that most of our presidents including FDR, Truman, etc., being 30-something-degree Masons, were privy to the true cause and, if not devil worshipers themselves, knowingly took direction from those who were.

    Don't waste your money on a new copy. It's a given that the rich and powerful are networked: by Masonry, Skull and Bones, the CIA, KGB, military-industrial-complex, etc. Whether these entities have always acted in concert is treated much more intelligently elsewhere, without the anti-religious undertones. I recommend Superclass by David Rothkopf, who has actually interviewed many of the power-players he writes about.

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  • Posted January 25, 2010

    Good resourse for masonic and history readers

    Have just begun reading. Very interesting thus far.

    Promises to be a good resourse

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  • Posted March 9, 2009

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    This was a very difficult book to follow. I was very disappointed in the overall content. After the first couple of chapters I was bored to death, but I was determined to finish it. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

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