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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Important book, 2008-09-15
Very important book to understand globalism and the new transnational forms of government, its origins, its rational, its implementation.
Everyone who wishes to grasp how the transnational post-democratic mind works and perceives the world should read this book. Quigley is very honest as he state the new regimen as inevitable and already in fast implementation and although very apologetic of it, he is displeased by the fact that all those changes are been made disingenously and in secret.
This book is the bible of globalism, read it if you want to understand it, and to understand how the world works nowadays...Quigley wrote it mostly because he thought people should have the option to choose and participate in all those changes openly...and not merely acept them passively and deceptively.
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 Tragedy & Hope by Quigley, 2008-08-08
You'd think it would take several chapters to get to the heart of the matter - think again - I was stunned at Quigley's take on economic influence as a driving factor in world affairs. To those who say this is too long a read, weighed down with superfluous anecdotes - they are wrong. Tragedy & Hope should be the default text for 20th Century World History.
A must have for everyone's library, more relevant to the modern state of affairs than any of the modern pundits drivel.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
One of the Most Important Books You Will Ever Read, 2008-06-25
"As a teenager I heard John Kennedy's summons to citizenship. And as a student at Georgetown, I heard the call clarified by a professor I had named Carroll Quigley, who said America was the greatest country in the history of the world because our people have always believed in two great ideas: first, that tomorrow can be better than today, and second, that each of us has a personal moral responsibility to make it so."
When Bill Clinton spoke these stirring words to millions of Americans during his 1992 acceptance address before the Democratic National Convention upon receiving his party's nomination for President of the United States, the vast multitude of his television audience paused for a micro-second to reflect: Who is Carroll Quigley and why did he have such a dramatic effect on this young man before us who may become our country's leader?
Carroll Quigley was a legendary professor of history at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, and a former instructor at Princeton and Harvard.
He was a lecturer at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Brookings Institution, the U. S. Naval Weapons Laboratory, the Foreign Service Institute of the State Department, and the Naval College.
Quigley was a closely connected elite "insider" to the American Establishment, with impeccable credentials and trappings of respectability.
But Carroll Quigley's most notable achievement was the authorship of one of the most important books of the 20th Century: Tragedy and Hope - A History of the World in Our Time.
No one can truly be cognizant of the intricate evolution of networks of power and influence which have played a crucial role in determining who and what we are as a civilization without being familiar with the contents of this 1,348-page tome.
It is the "Ur-text" of Establishment Studies, earning Quigley the epithet of "the professor who knew too much" in a Washington Post article published shortly after his 1977 death.
In Tragedy and Hope, as well as the posthumous The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden, Quigley traces this network, in both its overt and covert manifestations, back to British racial imperialist and financial magnate Cecil Rhodes and his secret wills, outlining the clandestine master plan through seven decades of intrigue, spanning two world wars, to the assassination of John Kennedy.
Through an elaborate structure of banks, foundations, trusts, public-policy research groups, and publishing concerns (in addition to the prestigious scholarship program at Oxford), the initiates of what are described as the Round Table groups (and its offshoots such as the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations) came to dominate the political and financial affairs of the world.
For the ambitious young man from Hope, Arkansas, his mentor's visionary observations would provide the blueprint of how the world really worked as he made his ascendancy via Oxford through the elite corridors of power to the Oval Office.
Published in 1966, Tragedy and Hope lay virtually unnoticed by academic reviewers and the mainstream media establishment.
Then Dr. W. Cleon Skousen, the noted conservative author of the 1961 national best-seller, The Naked Communist, discovered Quigley, and the serious implications of what Quigley had revealed.
In 1970, Skousen published The Naked Capitalist: A Review and Commentary on Dr. Carroll Quigley's Book Tragedy and Hope.
This was soon followed by None Dare Call It Conspiracy. This slim volume by Gary Allen (and Larry Abraham) provided the massive paradigm shift of grassroots, populist conservatives from mere anti-Communism to a much larger anti-elitist world-view.
Millions of copies of these books came into print, and the conservative movement changed forever.
Copies of Tragedy and Hope began disappearing from library shelves.
A pirate edition was printed.
Quigley came to believe that his publisher Macmillan had suppressed his book.
Dr. Gary North, the esteemed economic commentator and historian has an interesting discussion of these curious facts in the chapter, "Maverick 'Insider' Historians," in his book, Conspiracy: A Biblical View, available on-line.
Quigley himself discusses these issues concerning his book in a five part YouTube interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxVlBVXwU5k
However some persons believe Carroll Quigley was simply amplifying earlier research in conservative authors Emanuel Josephson's Rockefeller 'Internationalist': The Man Who Misrules The World, and Dan Smoot's The Invisible Government, or that of the radical sociologist C. Wright Mill's The Power Elite, which had outlined these same elite networks of power.
I disagree with that narrow assessment. Although there is much to disagree with in interpretation in Quigley's book, the originality and titanic scope of the work cannot be doubted or disparaged.
In a book much praised by economist and historian Murray Rothbard, author Carl Oglesby's The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies From Dallas To Watergate, has a fascinating discussion of Quigley within a wider framework of American power politics and subterranean intrigue.
And in a volume hailed by Gore Vidal, Christopher Hitchens, before he morphed from Trotskyist man of letters to Neocon mouthpiece, had some insightful musings along the line of Quigley in his Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies.
Tragedy and Hope is indeed one of the most important books you will ever read.
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Tragedy and Hope, 2008-05-30
Interesting, informative, well researched. It should have been bound in 2 volumes, as a one volume edition it is too thick, heavy and cumbersome to handle and interferes with the reading enjoyment.
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NO HOPE, 2008-03-17
Yes international bankers run the world for their own ends.We see what the FED has done for them lately,but not for you.World economy will probably go into depression.U.S. dollar worth practically nothing.Inflation with paper money really worth nothing over long term.Outsource everything to Asia,and bring there immigrants to the west.Third world for them to keep power and profit.
War and fear without end the best means of control.Keep their minds on other things.Don't think about the U.S. Constitution,or Bill of Rights.That way they can have police state.Black Water one of many contractors building fence with technology that is flawed.Also over runs in cost.You know those contractors.Don't forget the arms dealers.They are our finest in the corporate state,or should it be called the U.S. company international.
Now Pear Harbor attack intent was known about by our government 11 days before it took place.This is fact.Iraq war started under false pretenses.No Weapons of mass destruction.It is stated in this book that Hitler was financed by bankers.Part of English government backed this position. Chamberlain and his actions for example.WW1 England needed U.S tax payers to pay for war,so they got us into ww1,ww11, to support these ends,and for profit etc.Of course international bankers were dominant factor.The authors of books I have reviewed support this books accusations.Yes they use all sides against each other.They are involved in all movements. Environment,socialist,communist,fascist,unions.We see who is supported by U.S. government.Israel for example,Egypt.Look at condition of Mexico, central and south America Africa,Parts of Asia.Who is responsible.Democracy ploy for imperialism.
Foundations are use to evade taxes and sponsor their ends.They control universities,news media,etc.Central banks run countries?.Do they own them?Privatize everything for corporation.Own utilities.Monopoly of seeds for crops.Control fresh water and sell at highest price.Do this with everything.Internationalize the world under one King the head of the international bankers.War forever and fear for best profit.The Report from Iron Mountain.The protocols of the Elders of Zion it makes no difference whether there fiction,or not they are in action to make the world third world with one world government.Ask the elite to explain about oxford university,Cecil Rhodes,Rothschild.The Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs.C.F.R.,AIPAC,Bilderberg group,and all the other secret organizations.Ask Rockefeller too.Kings,queens,and other super elite are real rulers of the world.These make up the richest people in world,for them this has to be perpetual at the cost of the worlds population.The N.W.O.Globalism,One World.Immigration law is not enforced.This is killing America.The report From Iron Mountain.War,disorganize nations to point it has no identification,or culture.Tibet is being over run by Chines to take over Tibet.Same method for North America.Iraq destroyed to be reorganized under oil king rule.There is no energy shortage only a world monopoly of oil,and there is the gold,diamond king.Biology says diversity is the real king,so New World Order won't work,but nuclear WW 111 will, and is coming soon.Decline of the West,Law of Civilization and Decay.The end of the world.The Report From Iron Mountain.Jew Watch at Google.com.
Walter E. Haas reviews and comments from others.God Bless America.
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