Secrets Of The Tomb (NAPSA)—Inside a cold, fore- boding Greco-Egyptian structure of brown sandstone in New Haven, Conn., lives one of the most heavily shroudedsecret societies in American history: Yale’s super-elite Skull and Bones, an organization that has thrived for nearly 200 years, quietly pulling strings at the university and far beyond. SECRETS OF THE TOMB | SKULL AND BONES, THE IVY LEAGUE, AND THE HIDDEN PATHS OF POWER Seas = i — In Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power(Little, Brown, $25.95), journalist Alexan- dra Robbins identifies society members—including three U.S. presidents—and exposes the ways in which they’ve benefited from the seemingly unbreakable bonds of Skull and Bones in business and politics—even on the world stage. From the rambunctious but harmless initiation ceremony to the members-only island hideaway, membership can seem silly at times, but taken as a whole, the Skull and Bones experience has forged some of the most lasting— and influential—relationships of recent history. By taking readers inside “the Tomb” and giving them front-row seats at initiations and otherrituals, Robbins paints the most complete portrait of the organization to date and begins to explain the paradox of a society that has demandedinvisibility while simultaneously publicizing its supremacy. Secrets of the Tomb is available at bookstores and can be found online at www.twbookmark.com.
