The Secret Founding of America, Nicholas Hagger
The Secret Founding of America, Nicholas Hagger
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The Secret Founding of America
The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans & the Battle for the New World

Author: Nicholas Hagger

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/17/2026

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The widely accepted story of the founding of America is that The Mayflower delivered the first settlers from Plymouth to the New World in 1620. Yet in reality, the Jamestown settlers had already become the first English-speaking outpost thirteen years earlier in 1607. The Secret Founding of America introduces these two groups of founders—the Planting Fathers, who established the earliest settlements along essentially Christian lines, and the Founding Fathers, who unified the colonies with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution—and it argues that the new nation, conceived in liberty, was the Freemasons’ first step towards a new world order. Drawing on original findings and an in-depth understanding of the political and philosophical realities of the time, historian Nicholas Hagger charts the connections between Gosnold and Smith, Templars and Jacobites, and secret societies and libertarian ideals. He also explains how the influence of German Illuminati worked on the constructors of the new republic, and shows the hand of Freemasonry at work at every turning point in America’s history, from Civil War to today’s global struggles for democracy.

About Nicholas Hagger

Nicholas Hagger has written more than forty books. The Secret Founding of America is the first in his American Trilogy followed by The Secret American Dream and The Secret American Destiny. He was awarded the Gusi Peace Prize 2016 for Literature. 

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Yuri on August 12, 2018

It’s important to study history, but it’s perhaps even more important to know through which lens history is being viewed. Facts matter, but historical accounts are always filtered through a set of ideological biases. No account of history is going to be completely neutral. Establishment historians w......more

Goodreads review by Richard on August 15, 2012

This book is a real eye opener, not the kind of history taught in most schools, public or private. America is not a Christian nation, as is popularly believed, to rather an amalgam of both religious and non-religious influences. Engaging and nicely paced, the book covers in significant detail the se......more

Goodreads review by Timothy on May 31, 2011

I liked this book in that it totally offsets the view in the book, The Light and the Glory. This volume shows that Freemasonry and other secret groups went back much further than the mid-1700s and that America was not as "christian" as the Light and the Glory crowd want everyone to think. Do I trust......more

Goodreads review by Chris on June 29, 2013

Facinating, but ridiculously hard to follow. The ultimate conspiracy theory, Freemasons control everything! We've heard all this before but, this is over the top. I would not recommend this book to anyone I know..........more

Goodreads review by Felicia on February 15, 2026

Five stars. Not because every footnote will satisfy every academic but because this book dares to say what polite history books won’t. If you’ve ever had the nagging sense that the story we were handed about America’s founding feels… curated… this book will not feel crazy to you. Hagger argues that......more


Awards

  • Amazon
  • Candace Owen Book Club Pick