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100 1 $aHorowitz, Mitch.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009014431
245 10 $aOccult America :$bthe secret history of how mysticism shaped our nation /$cMitch Horowitz.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBantam Books,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $a290 pages ;$c22 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: What is the occult? (and what is it doing in America?) -- The psychic highway -- Mystic Americans -- Don't try this at home : Ouija and the selling of spiritualism -- The science of right thinking -- The mail-order prophet -- Go tell pharaoh : the rise of magic in Afro-America -- The return of the "secret teachings" -- New deal of the ages : politics and the occult -- The masters among us -- Secrets for sale -- "The greatest mystic who ever lived in America" -- Epilogue: Aquarius rising : the new age dawns.
520 $aFrom the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board,"Occult America" briskly sweeps from the nation's earliest days of mystical and esoteric movements to the birth of the New Age era, tracing the many people and episodes that continue to exert such a powerful pull on the public today.
650 0 $aOccultism$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aParapsychology$zUnited States$xHistory.
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