WBro. Chris Hodapp, Master of Broad Ripple Lodge in 2001, and current sitting Master of Lodge Vitruvian #767, has a “best seller” in Freemasons for Dummies. Chris reports that the book is one of the largest-selling numbers ever in the “For Dummies” catalog, having sold some 30,000 copies to date. More recently, Ulysses Press announced the upcoming publication of WBro. Hodapp’s Solomon’s Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. This new book will probably be available after the first of the year, if our author can get it finished and off to the printers. Part of the delay is due to Chris’s busy work schedule, combined with his many recent visits to Grand Lodges across the country to talk about Freemasons for Dummies.
Cribbing from Amazon.Com, we find that
Solomon’s Builders transports the reader back to the birth of a radical new nation and tells how a secretive society influenced and inspired the formation of what would become the most powerful nation on earth.A history that reads like a thriller, it follows George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and the other Founding Fathers who transformed the lessons of their Masonic lodge rooms into models for a new democracy. In the process, it pieces together the still-visible clues of the Freemasons as it uncovers the mystical Masonic symbolism hidden in the design of the city and in its monuments, statues and buildings.
From “all-seeing eyes,” pentagrams, and Egyptian-inspired obelisks to the imposing and mysterious Masonic temples of the “Widow’s Sons,” Solomon’s Builders guides readers on a Freemason’s tour of Washington, D.C. as it separates fact from myth and reveals the background of the sequel to The Da Vinci Code.
Seems like a worthy follow-on to Freemasons for Dummies. Well done, WBro. Chris!
Posted by Nathan Brindle at October 16, 2006 09:47 AM