Masonic Authors' Guild International reviews Steven C. Bullock’s Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840 published in 1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. After nearly 30 years it remains the standard work on early American Freemasonry, arguing not only that the Craft first introduced -- and then transformed -- the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in America, but that it later helped to create the nineteenth-century culture of democracy, individualism, and sentimentalism.