The story they tell children today—about a foolish boy, magic beans, and a lucky adventure—is one of history’s greatest deceptions. The truth about Jack and the Beanstalk reaches back five thousand years, to a time before the pyramids rose from Egyptian sand, before the first words of the Bible were written. What you’re about to discover is not a fairy tale at all, but an ancient revolutionary manifesto hidden in plain sight, a brutal allegory of class warfare that someone desperately wanted you to forget.

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