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“In the massive history book Tragedy and Hope, Bill Clinton mentor and establishment insider Caroll Quigley explains succinctly how American politics works in the real world — and how the insiders like it. “
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The first edition of the above book is said to have been recalled and first edition copies no longer available, later editions said to have been rewritten...????
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[VitacoreVision]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley#Criticism

Carroll Quigley:

The original edition published by Macmillan in 1966 sold about 8800 copies and sales were picking up in 1968 when they “ran out of stock,” as they told me (but in 1974, when I went after them with a lawyer, they told me that they had destroyed the plates in 1968). They lied to me for six years, telling me that they would re-print when they got 2000 orders, which could never happen because they told anyone who asked that it was out of print and would not be reprinted. They denied this until I sent them xerox copies of such replies to libraries, at which they told me it was a clerk’s error. In other words they lied to me but prevented me from regaining the publication rights by doing so (on OP [out of print] rights revert to holder of copyright, but on OS [out of stock] they do not.) ... Powerful influences in this country want me, or at least my work, suppressed.

[thulldud]

I have a copy of the 1974 second printing of Tragedy And Hope here, and the paragraph that Newman is quoting is on page 1247. Quigley goes on to mention that the Goldwater nomination of 1964 (a "temporary aberration" in the pattern) did not upset the Establishment nearly as much as it otherwise would have because LBJ's sweep that year blunted its impact.

I don't see that happening this time. The Establishment can't swamp out the petit bourgeoisie intifada the same way Johnson did. He had the borrowed halo of the recently-martyred JFK, plus long-standing connections inside Congress and elsewhere.

The only way Hillary resembles LBJ is in the level of crookedness, and that is not going to help if The Donald can upend her media cover with a single sarcastic remark about Russian email hackers.

More popcorn needed here, definitely.