Lisa Eisner: Shriners
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
Lisa Eisner: Shriners Details
About the Author "Lisa Eisner is a Wyoming native, photojournalist, and founder of Greybull Press. She had been Editor at Vogue and Mademoiselle and is a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine. Her work has also been featured in magazines including Harper's Bazaar, Allure, and House & Garden. Eisner lives in Los Angeles." Read more
Reviews
This is really a picture book. Granted, the full-page pictures are nice -- and there are nearly 200 of them, but aside from the pictures the book only contains a 2-page preface consisting mostly of fond memories by the author of her Shriner grandfather (sweet, though), 8 pages of a somewhat tongue-in-cheek historical overview of the Shriners by another writer (Glenn O'Brien, entitled: "The Ancient Arabic Order of Nobels of the Mystic Shrine: They're not really fake Arabs, they're like antique Trekkies with hearts of gold"), the "Official 1920 Shrine Song," and 3 pages of about 25 "Shriners Facts." I really don't like giving a low rating to this book because the author's heart really seems to be in the right place (and she evokes fond memories of my own Shriner grandfather), but if you're looking for a book with a lot of factual content about Shriner/Mason history, culture, and practices, this is not it. Lots of pretty and nostalgic pictures though.