Many Americans associate the House of David with its bearded barnstorming baseball teams of the 1920s and '30s. Others may recall the sex scandal associated with the group. Still, others may know it as a religious communal society founded in 1903. What is this strange group and how can these diverse images be reconciled? In this in-depth study of the House of David, Robert S. Fogarty places the sect in the Anglo-Israelite millennial tradition that goes back to seventeenth-century Britain.
