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Quigley exposes the secret society's established in London in 1891, by Cecil Rhodes. Quigley explains how these men worked in union to begin their society to control the world. He explains how all the wars from that time were deliberately created to control the economies of all the nations.
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• Boring Details Of History 10 March, 2005
I purchased this book for a few different reasons. I wanted to find out what Bill Clinton saw in this mentor and college professor. I wanted to learn more abnout how the U.S. got itself into such a screwed up state, and I wanted to get clues as to how to defeat the Cabalist takeover of the U.S.
The book is full of history of the roots of the international banking elite who tried to bring Brittish (world) Imperialist domination into the 20th century. The details of the first half of the book are long and boring and didn't enlighten me at all but if you want to know the navel lint of history go for it.
The rest of the book has some interesting sections and did help me attain my goals somewhat but it was like finding a needle in a haystack. I have boring book hay fever so for me it was "Are we there yet?" the whole way.
Matt Pittaway www.HisHouseMedia.com Nashville
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• The Anglo Establishment 17 June, 2008
First off, the title of this book is a bit misleading, and thus, the book is not exactly what I expected. Judging by the title, I was expecting to read about the Americans of English heritage that hold most of the political and economic power in the US. It turns out that this is a history of a British secret society and their utopian plans for "spreading the British way of life." The only way it even relates to America is that the members were intent on gaining the US as a main ally in their endeavor, which at the time of the books publication in 1949, they were apparently yet to do. Despite the confusion, I found the book to be fascinating, although very tedious at times.
In the late 19th century, Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner and several of their cohorts started a secret society which sought to preserve and spread their beloved British culture around the world. According to Quigley, who admits his sympathy for their cause if not their methods, the group set out with nothing but the best intentions and sincerely believed that the world would be the better for it. Their first goal was to organize Britain's colonies into a group of federated states with equal status, or a Commonwealth of Nations as they called it. After that, they sought to gradually include more and more nations until the world was eventually united into one loosely knit federation. These men were utopians, says Quigley, and the book challenges the notion that British imperialism was simply about economic exploitation, but instead an attempt to bring what they saw as the pinnacle of human culture to the uncivilized masses. The following is a quote from an unnamed member of the group which seems to sum up their beliefs:
"The development of the British Empire teaches how moral convictions and devotion to duty have inspired the building of the structure. Opponents of Imperialism are wont to suggest that the story will not bear inspection, that it is largely a record of self-aggrandizment and greed. Such a charge betrays ignorance of its history....The end of the State is to make men, and its strength is measured not in terms of defensive armaments or economic prosperity but by the moral personality of its individual members that they shall not merely live but live well. Social reformers are prone to insist too strongly on an ideal of material comfort for the people...A life of satisfaction depends not on higher wages or lower prices or on leisure for recreation, but on work that calls into play the higher capacities of man's nature....The cry of the masses should not be for wages or comforts or even liberty, but for opportunities for enterprise and responsibility. A policy for closer union in the Empire is full of significance in relation to this demand. There is but one way of promise. It is that the peoples of the Empire shall realize their national unity and draw from that ideal an inspiration to common endeavour in the fulfillment of the moral obligations which their membership of the Empire entails. The recognition of common Imperial interests is bound to broaden both their basis of public action and their whole view of life. Public life is ennobled by great causes and by these alone...."
Besides Rhodes and Milner, some of the named members are; Lionel Curtis, Lord Halifax, Arthur Balfour, Nathan Rothschild, Waldorf and Nancy Astor, Arnold Toynbee and a host of others. Rather than just a single group though, there seems to have been a complicated network that included an inner core, an outer core and a sort of blurry peripheral with a number of indviduals who were not actually members but either sympathized with the group, or unwittingly furthered their goals. The group was heavily involved in the League of Nations and seems to have had a major influence on British foreign policy, especially in the years between and during WWI and WWII.
In the conclusion, WW2 had only recently ended and the group's future is uncertain. Quigley states that the group was already falling apart at this time so one wonders if it still exists today. I should note that the Council on Foreign Relations, which is still very active today, is listed as an offshoot of the British group Royal Institute of International Affairs, the latter being one of the main arms of the group. This book could be considered conspiracy theory territory but I didn't think any of it was particularly far-fetched, and it would seem that much of the information within is widely known to be true. All in all, a tedious but very interesting read.
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• A Good Historical Document ! 07 May, 2005
"The Anglo-American establishment" is a continuation of Quigley's major work "Tragedy and Hope." In this book Quigley lists many names of the Anglo-Saxon (means English descendant) round table and discusses the connection with their cohorts in the American establishment. Of course, Quigley had always potrayed the elitist organizations and plots as benign, and admitted on different occasions that they already have taken over the world financially, politically, and militarily if needed. He also conceded that it was too late for anyone to stop the Anglo-American establishment from ruling the world, and it is better to accept it as the new reality of the new world order.
Quigley proclaimed himself on many occasions as the historian of these elites, as they allowed him into their secret doors in order to have him research their steps and advocate for their causes, and rewrite the world history in their favor.
Tragedy and Hope is a much better book that than this one, but "The Anglo-American Establishment" might make anyway an interesting reading for the curious mind....
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• The Best Information Is Between The Lines 07 May, 2006
`The Anglo-American Establishment" is a book by Carroll Quigley, a man whom former president Clinton called his "favorite professor."
Quigley documents the work of a secret Group of influential conspirators, alleging that the Group was one of the most important historical facts of the 20th century, due to its influence on British foreign policy. The book covers the period from 1919-1945.
The author nearly bores us to death, and presents a lot of information that is contradicted by other sources. There is some worthwhile information here, but it will be hard to find if your eyes glaze over.
Cecil Rhodes of South African fame formed this unnamed Group and perpetuated it after his death, by way of a trust fund.
Many who were associated with the Group imagined that they were endeavoring to extend British rule throughout the world, along with the great moral ideals of "freedom and democracy."
This Group was self-deluded. They imagined that they were moral, civilized, and even Christian, but they were the antithesis of all that. Their methods were those of tyrants, despots, warmongers, and conspirators.
Quigley makes a fundamental error in supposing that this Group was at the apex of power. More likely, this Group was manipulated to further the interests of international finance, without the idealists in the ranks having any suspicion of being used.
The name Robert Henry Brand (Baron Brand, Lord Brand) is repeatedly mentioned as a supremely influential member. He was a partner and managing director of Lazard Brothers Bank. "In all of his activities Brand has remained one of the most central figures in the core of the Group."
The Group was responsible for an unbroken series of British policy disasters. Like they say, the big money is made in wars and depressions.
The Group's idea of expanding the British Empire mutated into the idea of placing the Commonwealth within a League of Nations, which is just another name for world government.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2TUXXRUR3ILOF
• This Book Is The Grandaddy Of Them All 20 June, 2008
The book gets five stars, not for holding one's interest nor its readability, but rather because it not only devolves the origins of the hidden criminal elements that were soon to control the US government, but more importantly, it devolves the tactics used to achieve this.
The relevance of the book lies not in England, but with the exporting of their ideas and methods to the US. I agree that this connection is loose and weak within this book itself and to form a clear picture of it, you need to add another source to accompany this reading. This other source is the subject of another of my reviews: The Invisible Government.
Now, the reader is armed with the necessary information he/she needs to make sense of it all. A key member of Cecil Rhodes's secret society and the beneficiary of ALL of Rhodes's vast wealth brought the game over to the US at the turn of the 20th century. His name was Lord Rothschild. This mega-elitist was already somewhat involved behind the American scenes, as he had access to the US Ambassador to England, John Hay. John Hay was a widely known internationalist. The remarkable event that pushed America toward Empire was John Hay's ascension to Secretary of State under President McKinley. This appointment marked a radical change in McKinley's foreign policy. At this point, the US began to look a whole lot like Great Britain. While GB was slaughtering the Dutch farmers (Boers) in South Africa, the US began its slaughter of the Filipinos. Both superpower utilized scorched-earth policies as they slaughtered women and children, burned huts and killed their livestock. It was as ugly as mankind's capabilities allow.
The secret society soon recruited Col. Edward M. House, who wrote "Phillip Dru: Administrator" and the US has never to this day escaped the clutches of the Anglo-American Establishment. For fuller details and to bring the story into the 21 century, see the book, Don't Weep for Me, America: How Democracy in America Became the Prince (While We Slept).
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