In her book Tarot: History, Mystery and Lore, Cynthia Giles writes:

'The third stage in the Tarot development of today's Tarot was marked by a change of scenery and afresh influx of colourful characters.

The new American venue offered an exuberant and much more public setting for Tarot research, absent were the ostentatiously 'secret' societies the veiled references, and the aristocratic eccentrics, in their place were business like organization that perused occult ideas with the same practical attitude General Motors brought to the matter of transportation.'

The American influence on Tarot can be seen now in the diversity, the eclecticism, and the individualism of contemporise Tarot interpretation - as well as the increasing commercialization of Tarot.

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