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- "Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part One"
- Summary: The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.
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Review of Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part One
Bill McKibben
Posted on February 24, 2005 at 08:53 AM
This is a story everyone needs to hear, since it sheds actual light on the endless fascination with the occult. TShe story of Madame Blavatsky, Col. Alcott, and all that it led to is told with economy, grace, and real style, and the ending of Part Two is the only possible ending, absolutely perfect. I have no idea how this reporter becomes authoritative on such a wide variety of subjects, but I'm awfully glad she does. There is a modesty about these pieces that belies theair authority