John Lawrence Reynolds on the Skull and Bones Society

John Lawrence Reynolds efficaciously persuades his readers that the secret society of the Skull and Bones is one that is based in Germanic roots and produces members that achieve roles of prominence and power. Reynolds uses Aristotelian rhetoric to convince his readers that the affluent members of this society retain close bonds with their fellow bonesmen throughout their careers creating a façade of intrigue and conspiracy whose existence is verifiable and history is linked to Masonic traditions and possibly to the Nazi parties belief in a new world order.

Reynolds strives to show his readers the history of the Skull and Bones Society as proof of its being an incubator of members who gain placement in multiple leadership roles in America. He begins his chapter on the Skull and Bones by giving his readers a history lesson of how the society resides only at Yale University in a mausoleum-like building known as the Tomb. Reynolds covers the founding of the society as well as the initiation rites of the fifteen juniors that are chosen every year to become members. He then proceeds to cover the history of the society from the men who originally founded it to the accounts of who their prominent well known members are and their roles in some of Americas most well-known moments in history.

Reynolds uses the character and disposition or, Ethos, to prove the trustworthiness of his sources. John Lawrence Reynolds is an author of fiction and non-fiction titles. He graduated from McMaster University with degrees in English and Psychology. He has won multiple awards including two Arthur Ellis awards, a National Business Book award, a National Magazine award, and has been recognized by an Author’s Award from the Foundation for the advance...

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...nstrate to his readers that Skull and Bones can be genuinely linked to the Nazi Party as well as to other events in history proving that the rumors of the societies belief that they can create a New World Order is in fact true.

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