Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time Each central bank.sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence co-operative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.” Carroll Quigley” The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds central banks which were themselves private corporations. This system was to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. During the early cold war he was a true Washington insider who worked as a consultant for the Defense Department, the Navy, and other government entities, but his work is most often referenced by perennial outsiders like the John Birch Society and conspiracy researchers like the late Jim Marrs.“The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. In many ways Quigley was a complex bundle of contradictions: a conservative defender of Western civiliation who opposed the Vietnam War and was Bill Clinton's mentor at Georgetown. A very nice copy.Professor Carroll Quigley's magnum opus, a world history of power with a focus on the Anglo-American elite.

Fine with no marking to pages, in an unclipped ($12.00) dust jacket, Very Good+ slightly dulled with short tears along spine folds at head, repaired with tape on verso, small closed tear along bottom of front panel. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering.

(All first printing points present: stated 'First Printing' on copyright page, no mention of later publisher Angriff Press, full page count, does not state 'First published in 1966 by' on title page.) xii, 1348 pp.

Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley