Illuminati
The History of a Conspiracy Theory
$78.53
- Hardcover
464 pages
- Release Date
5 December 2026
Summary
The first proper history of the world’s most notorious secret society and its bizarre and dangerous afterlife
On 1 May 1776 a radical young professor named Adam Weishaupt founded a secret society whose aim was to infiltrate and overturn the system of world power from within. Intellectuals, judges, politicians and poets joined, united by Enlightenment ideals and liberal attitudes towards politics and religion. They called themselves the Order of the Illuminati.
Within a decade …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781847928382 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1847928382 |
| Author: | Michael Taylor |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Bodley Head Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 40mm x 156mm x 240mm |
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Critics Review
This is dazzling history that tells us a great deal about society now. A jewel of a book – Sathnam Sanghera
The fascinating true story of the conspiracy theory that changed everything – Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth
Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor is the author of Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion, which was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2024 and chosen as a Book of the Year by the Economist, TLS, and Waterstones, as well as The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and chosen as a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. He was born in 1988 and graduated with a double first in history from the University of Cambridge, where he earned his PhD. He has since been Lecturer in Modern British History at Balliol College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow at the British Library’s Eccles Centre for American Studies.
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