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SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Devin Thomas O'Shea - The Veiled Prophet
DESCRIPTION:Devin Thomas O'Shea presents his book\, THE VEILED PROPHET\, a provocative look at the St. Louis secret society.\n\nAbout THE VEILED PROPHET: SECRET SOCIETIES\, WHITE SUPREMACY\, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR ST. LOUIS:\n\nEvery December in downtown St. Louis\, the city’s upper crust attend a garish costume party that doubles as a debutante’s ball. The daughters of high society are paraded to the throne of a cloaked monarchical figure\, and bow to the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. At first glance\, the event seems outdated and clownish\, but in truth the Veiled Prophet Society has functioned as an exclusive club for the “city fathers\,” where solidarity is built between wealthy men who head major U.S. corporations\, banks\, and control whole industries. At the Veiled Prophet’s Ball\, these titans of capital come together to crown one of their daughters the Queen of Love and Beauty\, and celebrate the breaking of strikes\, the sabotage of protests\, and the enforcement of racial hierarchies.\n\nDevin Thomas O’Shea’s The Veiled Prophet is the definitive history of the Veiled Prophet Society in all its violence and pageantry\, offering a colorful alternate history of the United States through the lens of the Midwestern elite. O’Shea follows the Veiled Prophet Society from its origins in the wake of the 1877 general strike\, through the 1904 World’s Fair\, to the height of the Prophet’s―and St. Louis’s―influence during the Cold War. The Veiled Prophet examines the unexpected ways this secret society has shaped the course of history\, from the CIA to the Vietnam War to the assassination of Martin Luther King.\n\nYet the power wielded by the Veiled Prophet has not gone uncontested. Since the Gilded Age\, the Prophet has faced resistance from orphans armed with pea-shooters\, Communist Party organizers during the Depression\, Civil Rights icons\, and renegade debutantes. The Ferguson uprising of 2014 was only the most recent challenge to the Prophet’s influence.\n\nAs the fight for the soul and streets of St. Louis intensifies\, it’s more critical than ever that we expose the sordid history of these powerful\, masked figures and their control over our democracy.\n\nAbout Devin Thomas O'Shea\n\nDevin is the author of THE VEILED PROPHET\, publishing with Haymarket Book. His writing is in Slate\, Jacobin\, The Nation\, The Emerson Review\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, Boulevard\, and elsewhere.\n\nThank you to Main Street Books for partnering with us on this event!\n\nTo find this book at the Library\, search the Library Catalog!
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