It touched lives as disparate as those of Frederick Douglass, Franklin Roosevelt, and Mary Todd Lincoln—who once convinced her husband, Abe, to host a séance in the White House. Americans all, they were among the famous figures whose paths intertwined with the mystical and esoteric movement broadly
Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation
✍ Scribed by Mitch Horowitz
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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