Books: “A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot,” by Ronald Decker, et al

A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot, by Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis, and Michael Dummett, 1996, 308 p.
For years, I’ve been curious about tarot cards; from the perspective of a child of vaguely Protestant upbringing, they had an air of taboo about them—of being bad and wrong—but they also had detailed, [...]

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Books: “The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear,” by John Buescher

The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear, John Buescher, 2006, 368 p.
A month or so ago, at my workplace (the Center for History and New Media, at George Mason University, where I work on the National History Education Clearinghouse project), I said something to my officemate, John Buescher, about science fiction. John’s an older [...]

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