The American Fraternity: An Illustrated Ritual Manual [Hardcover]

The American Fraternity is a mysterious photo and ritual book that lifts the veil on Americas oldest and most influential male tradition. The text comes from a decaying ritual manual from a prominent college fraternity. Seventy-five percent of modern U.S. presidents, senators, justices, and executives have taken arcane oaths of allegiance like the ones it contains. Six decades of red ceremonial wax stain it like blood. It is filled with dark power.Andrea Smith, PublicistNational print and online campaignSocial Media campaignPromotion through: www.daylightbooks.orgThe American Fraternity is a mysterious photo and ritual book that lifts the veil on Americas oldest and most influential male tradition.The photographs were shot pictures over seven years at the UC Berkeley fraternity where the old manual comes from. The pictures reveal what Americas most influential men do, by tradition, before they go off to lead the professional world. They are the first body of photographs to capture college fraternity life. ...released amid a nationwide conversation about toxic masculinity sparked by the #Metoo movement... ,
- Time, September 17, 2018
...a historical document of a powerfuland aggressiveAmerican subculture. ,
- Vice, October 4, 2018
This is a naked look inside the American frat house. ,
- The New York Post, September 27, 2018
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