Occult America
Subtitle: the secret history of how mysticism conquered America
By: Mitch Horowitz.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780553806755
Subjects: Occultism -- United States -- History; Parapsychology -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What is the occult? (and what is it doing in America?); title: The psychic highway; title: Mystic Americans; title: Don't try this at home : Ouija and the selling of spiritualism; title: The science of right thinking; title: The mail-order prophet; title: Go tell pharaoh : the rise of magic in Afro-America; title: The return of the "secret teachings"; title: New deal of the ages : politics and the occult; title: The masters among us; title: Secrets for sale; title: "The greatest mystic who ever lived in America"; title: Epilogue: Aquarius rising : the new age dawns.