"Occult America"

New from Bantam: Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation by Mitch Horowitz.About the book, from the publisher:It touched lives as disparate as those of Frederick Douglass, Franklin Roosevelt, and Mary Todd Lincoln—who once convinced her husband, Abe, to host a séance in the White House. Americans all, they were among the famous figures whose paths intertwined with