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In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans were confronted with the fictions shoring up the nation’s racial regime and learned to disregard them. The true significance of this hidden history has gone unseen—until now. Groundbreaking and profoundly resonant, The Unseen Truth shows how visual tactics have long secured our regime of racial hierarchy in spite of its false foundations—and offers a way to begin to dismantle it.

The Ark of the Covenant has been lost for more than 2600 years. Many sources allege that the Knights Templar had discovered it while they were in Israel during the Crusades (and they may have hidden it elsewhere). No one is talking about where the Ark is located today. But there were hints to its whereabouts hidden right in front of us. The word 'Ark' appeared clearly in rebus pictograms. In fact, you'll be surprised to find the extent to which there were clues to the Ark concealed in the artwork pertaining to the Knights Templar. This book explores just what the secrecy around the Ark ...

Driven by different motives, Robert Moses and Francis Cardinal Spellman had the same vision: to display Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Pietà, in the Vatican's pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.

James Stourton tells the story of the London art market from the immediate postwar period to the turn of the millennium in engaging and fast-paced style, populating his richly entertaining narrative with a glorious rogues’ gallery of clever amateurs, eccentric scholars, brilliant emigrés, cockney traders and grandees with a flair for the deal.