Dear Friends,I don’t write letters very often in support of our books. This one is really worth special attention. The world has always been interested in something other than what our moms or dads told us, what our teachers told us, what our churches told us, what the media told us. As we get older there’s often a deep suspicion about received wisdom. In a new book that arrives in bookstores this week,The Secret History of the World, brilliant editor and author Mark Booth has, after a lifetime of research, assembled a book that looks at the deepest histories of our universe and of our world—three thousand years of hidden knowledge and wisdom. Booth’s is a relentless approach, charging through time and space and thought in interdisciplinary fashion: Booth covers Lewis Carroll, Philip K. Dick, Schrödinger, Duchamp, and Bob Dylan with equal flair; and he deals with the subjects of Cognitive Science, Religion, Psychology, Historiography, and of course Philosophy in drawing up this new history of our world. I don’t think Overlook has ever published a book at once so marvelously speculative and so solemnly grounded by research into the corners of our lives and often the well springs of our religious and political beliefs, whether they be Greek and Egyptian mythology, Jewish folklore, Christian cults, Gnosticism, early American philosophy, Catholic conspiracy theory, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, the Illuminati, and people like Shakespeare, Washington, Newton, Dostoevsky, Wagner, Hitler… all of them do more than make their appearance in these pages. I think this book will sell and sell, this season and this year, and for many years. It is certainly unlike any book we’ve ever published, nor are we likely to come upon another one. Please take a look at The Secret History of the World.
Peter Mayer
Publisher
The Overlook Press
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