Hunting for a book...

[madamesilverspurs]

Thirty-some years ago I resided briefly in Humboldt County in California, where my veryRepublican parents had retired. One of their friends, recently widowed, was the delightfully shocking opposite of my mother's very proper demeanor, and she made her guest room available to me. Her home contained a surprisingly large library, including a number of books that were of decidedly non-Republican perspective. I spent many happy hours on the deck overlooking the water, reading book after book.

Since then I've tried now and then to find one particular book that was in her collection. It was a small paperback, something about "hidden" government, and it was the first time I'd seen anything about something called the Tri-lateral Commission. There was also a section about how old John D. Rockefeller got worried about somebody who was developing an engine that burned wood instead of oil, compelling him to fund the Sierra Club in order to eliminate that potential competition. I really want to get a look at the author's bio as well as the book's bibliography.

Thanks for any assistance with this search!


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[The Straight Story]

1. kick (nt)

[The Straight Story]

2. How about this one (I liked it)

http://www.amazon.com/Unseen-Hand-Ralph-Epperson/dp/0961413506

The Unseen Hand

Product Description
It is the contention of the author that the major events of the past, the wars, the depressions and the revolutions, have been planned years in advance by an international conspiracy. This view is called the Conspiratorial View of History, and is definitely not the view held by the majority of historians today. The more traditonal view is called The Accidental View of History, and it holds that no one really knows why events happen--they just do.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Thanks! Looks interesting, but...

the book I'm looking for is nowhere near that lengthy, maybe 150 pages max. Probably should have mentioned that earlier, huh?


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[mfcorey1]

4. Try abebooks.com

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Thanks!

[rabs]

6. "Between Two Ages"

may be what you are looking for.

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Trilateral Commission:
World Shadow Government

The Trilateral Commission was established in 1973. Its founder and primary financial angel was international financier, David Rockefeller, longtime chairman of the Rockefeller family-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank and undisputed overlord of his family's global corporate empire

Rockefeller's idea for establishing the commission emerged after he had read a book entitled Between Two Ages written by an Establishment scholar, Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University.

In his book Brzezinski proposed a vast alliance between North America, Western Europe and Japan. According to Brzezinski, changes in the modern world required it.

"Resist as it might," Brzezinski wrote elsewhere, "the American system is compelled gradually to accommodate itself to this emerging international context, with the U.S. government called upon to negotiate, to guarantee, and, to some extent, to protect the various arrangements that have been contrived even by private business."

In other words, it was necessary for the international upper class to band together to protect its interests, and to ensure, in the developed nations, that political leaders were brought to power who would ensure that the global financial interests (of the Rockefellers and the other ruling elites) would be protected over those of the hoi polloi.

http://afgen.com/trilateral.html

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Hidden Government by John Creagh Scott was published in 1968 and is only like 80 pages.

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Thanks,

that almost sounds familiar...

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[SpiralHawk]

9. None Dare Call it Plutocracy

[fadedrose]

10. Try posting in Books: Fiction

There's a lot of book readers - fiction and non-fiction, and you might get some help....The group is called "Books: Fiction," but there's a lot of non-fiction readers who read and post there. Good luck.



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