The Veiled Prophet

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-01
• Mått: 232 x 44 x 156 mm
• Vikt: 865 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 472
• Förlag: Haymarket Books
• ISBN: 9798888905791

• Sanna berättelser
• True crime
• Konstitution: stat och regering
• Amerikas historia
• Religion: allmänt

Devin Thomas O’Shea is a writer whose work has appeared in The Nation, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Iowa Review, Jacobin, Boulevard, and elsewhere. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

“Devin Thomas O’Shea’s The Veiled Prophet inducts readers into white supremacy’s back room, revealing the pomp and circumstance of racism, the gaudy esoterica that is presumed to elevate brute domination into something sublime and mysterious. O’Shea tells the story of the racial phantasmagoria of Midwestern elites with great clarity and insight.”—Greg Grandin, author of America, América: A New History of the New World“O’Shea lifts the veil on Midwestern modernity to see the sequence of class struggle underneath. Gripping and thorough, you'll never look at the Gateway Arch the same way again.”—Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World“The Veiled Prophet is a dark romp through the backrooms of American history. This thoroughly-researched true story reads like fiction: thrilling, colorful, and very, very funny.”—Colette Shade, author of Y2K: How the 2000’s Became Everything“This big, important St. Louis story, arrestingly told, goes to the heart of what the ruling class does when it rules and when it parties. O’Shea captures how an elite reeling from Civil War, emancipation, and a general strike turned to white terrorist symbolism and Orientalist fascinations to create an enduring pageantry that could cement alliances among the rich and create awe and interest, though also inspired resistance, more broadly.”—David Roediger, author of Wages of Whiteness and An Ordinary White“The elaborate, occult pageantry of St. Louis’s Veiled Prophet Ball is stranger than fiction. Devin Thomas O’Shea tells the whole wild story of this conspiratorial society of cloaked elites crowning each other’s daughters, crushing labor strikes, and bankrolling reaction—and in the process delivers one of the most vivid and entertaining accounts of American class power I've read.”—Meagan Day, Jacobin, co-author of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism“The Veiled Prophet is a deeply researched, beautifully written, and shocking exposé of how a secret society of wealthy white supremacists has over centuries dominated the economy and politics of one midwestern city and how that dominance has harmed the wider world beyond the metropolis. Among the book’s many achievements are its deft blending of seeming opposites—domination and resistance, continuity and rupture, social structures and human agency.”—George Lipsitz, author of A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition and The Sidewalks of St. Louis.“A true page-turner, O’Shea’s study makes plain the centrality of St. Louis to US history and the trajectory of working-class struggle from the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 to the Ferguson Uprising of 2014. The Veiled Prophet is searing and uncompromising history.”—Keona Ervin, author of Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis"A genuinely startling deep-dive into something that sounds like it should be a conspiracy theory but is, in fact, real.... It sounds like something out of Pynchon, but it turns out truth is stranger than fiction." —LitHub Most Anticipated Books of 2026"A riotous history lesson: a century-spanning x-ray of of the underbelly of St. Louis."—Lucas Sprio, Arts Fuse"Exhilirating...a wild exploration of a shadowy elite."—Publishers Weekly

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