Illuminati

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
Taylor brilliantly outlines the petty squabbles that beset [the actual] Illuminati … Taylor’s meticulous account [then] shows how two historians in the 19th century traced the origins of the French Revolution and its descent into extreme violence to the Illuminati … [and] In a repeating pattern [to] every subsequent convulsion in world history … Taylor patiently traces details of increasingly bizarre arguments and propositions with good humour and a measure of understanding. To those who wonder whether this strange nonsense really matters, there are plenty of ‘real world’ examples – not of Illuminati influence, but of the consequences of disturbed people believing dangerous nonsense – David Horspool * Oldie *

Michael Taylor is the author of:

• Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
  • Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2024
  • Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Economist, TLS, and Waterstones
• The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery
  • Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
  • 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 also 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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