The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World

John Dickie, a professor of Italian history known for his work on the Mafia, brings the same forensic approach to Freemasonry: documented, sceptical, attentive to what the organization actually did rather than what it claimed. He traces Freemasonry from Scottish lodge origins through its role in the American and French Revolutions, its global spread during the British Empire, and its twentieth-century entanglement with fascism in Italy. The Wall Street Journal and The Economist both praised this 2020 book. The best modern narrative history of Freemasonry.