The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline39 reviews James Perloff Western Islands, 1988 This Book Confirmed My Suspicions + GREAT, FANTASTIC, INCREDIBLE book + The Council on Foreign Relations and the decline of autonomy: + An Excellent Anti-Establishment Primer + Note to the naysayers             A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II3 reviews Murray N. Rothbard Ludwig Von Mises Inst, 2002 Fascinating, Behind-the-Scenes Intrigue Revealed! + Superlative! + Outstanding Historical Economics Text!!! Absolutely fabulous! Only the incomparable Rothbard could tell this compelling story in its full richness and detail. Here the hidden history of money and banking in America unfolds as the internecine, behind-the-scenes warfare between elite financial interests such as the House of Morgan and ...             Financier: The Biography of André Meyer: A Story of Money, Power, and the Reshaping of American Business5 reviews Cary Reich Wiley, 1998 You should buy this book if: + A must read for anybody interested in IB + Fantastic Story about Lazard + Great read with facinating mix of famous characters             Walter Lippmann and the American Century3 reviews Ronald Steel Little Brown & Co (T), 1980 absolutely first rate biography and history + Titan of American Political Journalism + Dean of American Journalism This is an absolutely wonderful book. Walter Lippman was the first modern journalist of the US: in a time of parochialism, self-congratulatory muckraking, and yellow journalism, he had an internationalist perspective and strove to introduce the American people to new ideas. At the same time, he was ...             Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-4410 reviews Thomas E. Mahl Brassey's Inc, 1999 Essential + a belivable book, about an unbelievable subject. + Excellent research It is difficult to come to grips properly with US foreign policy in the 20th century without at least considering the thesis that Mahl presents: this book is essential reading for historians, political scientists and international relations scholars.             Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time33 reviews Carroll Quigley G. S. G. & Associates, Incorporated, 1975 One of the Most Important Books You Will Ever Read + Important book + Tragedy & Hope by Quigley + Tragedy and Hope + NO HOPE             The Best and the Brightest59 reviews David Halberstam Ballantine Books, 1993 History repeating itself + In the end They did get it wrong!! + The Best and the Brightest + The people behind the war             The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York107 reviews Robert A. Caro Vintage, 1975 Damning, erudite and compelling + Power Reveals + Biography at its very best... + A brief review for a big, important, thorough and ground breaking book. + More than a simple biography             The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America39 reviews Sally Denton, Roger Morris Vintage, 2002 truth sets free + Very Revealing, Excellent Book!!! + Excellent read + LAS VEGAS - BIGGEST & BRIGHTEST CON OF THEM ALL!             Tommy the Cork: Washington's Ultimate Insider from Roosevelt to Reagan1 review David Mckean Steerforth, 2003 Not just for the "inside the Beltway" crowd It is somewhat surprising that it has taken this long to get a full-length biography of Thomas Corcoran, who along with Benjamin V. Cohen was responsible for much of the New Deal legislative program. After his government service, Corcoran pioneered in developing a highly influential legislative ...             Philip Dru: Administrator1 review Edward Mandell House Robert Welch University Press, 1998 turgid and polemical Yes, as the book's back cover says, this book is largely forgotten today. Maybe for good reason. It is a shrill, turgid and polemical screed about doing over the American government. The hero, if that term might be used, overthrows the government in a putsch. He then institutes a radical ...             First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power14 reviews Warren Zimmermann Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004 Americanism. Imperalism. Manifest Destiny - 5 Americans + History taught through biography + Must read book about our history + "Always five, acting as one." + America's First Empire             Colonel, The: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson, 1867-19501 review Godfrey Hodgson Knopf, 1990 Superb This book is excellent. If you like to know about the history of the United States and the people who shaped it. You should read this book. It really opens your eyes to what happened in WWII. "If we don't learn from our past we are doomed to repeat it."             The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ (Columbia Studies in ...4 reviews Michael Janeway Columbia University Press, 2003 This makes it all clear + Upstairs/Downstairs in the New Deal + Help wanted: brain trust? + That Old FDR Gang of Mine             The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance52 reviews Ron Chernow Simon & Schuster Books, 1991 Learn the history of American finance as a whole by studying one titanic banking empire. + History repeating itself + The House of Morgan + Chernow's breadth of knowlege is breathtaking + Great Book if Specifically Interested in JPM             Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House1 review Godfrey Hodgson Yale University Press, 2008 a short biography of Edward House Edward House was one of the most influential diplomats in American history, and has faded into an oblivion inverse to the role he played in shaping the foreign policy of the man HL Mencken described as the "Archangel Woodrow." If you're still in high school, or perhaps doing undergraduate work, ...             Murdoch12 reviews William Shawcross Simon & Schuster, 1997 How about an update to the update? + Excellent biography. + Relatively balanced business biography When I read William Shawcross' "Murdoch" back when it was originally published (early 90s), I thought it was one of the best biographies I had read. I especially liked the author's focus on his subject's "pre-News" days, most notably a very memorable discussion on Murdoch's infatuation with ...             Citizen Cohn4 reviews Nicholas Von Hoffman Bantam, 1988 A brilliant biography of a very complex man + A Venal Man + The essential work on Cohn Loathed by some, well respected by others, Roy Cohn was known as the toughest and most brilliant lawyer in America. And indeed, his power brokering, love of glamour; controversy, and notoriety made him, in the end, one of the most influential men in our society. From his role in the Rosenbergs' ...             Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes10 reviews Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele W. W. Norton & Company, 1981 The Demise of an Empire + The best Howard Hughes book you'll ever find! + Unshrouds the mystery with facts, not speculations + Excellent Insight into the Life and Empire of Howard Hughes + Howard Hughes, Naked             The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made7 reviews Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas Simon & Schuster, 1997 A Reminder... + Essential for understanding WWII to Vietnam + Where are the next Wise Men? + Will Change Your View of the World + Wisdom Then