"On very rare occasions a book appears which forever changes the way in which we perceive the world around us. Within a short while it becomes hard to understand how we could have functioned without the knowledge gained from it. This is such a book. Quigley presents certain 'keys' crucial to the understanding of 20th century political, economic and military events - events of the past, present, and future. The fact that Carroll Quigley [1910-1977], a highly respected professor at Georgetown University and an instructor at Princeton and Harvard, could not find a publisher for this work, is ... View More...
"Professor Quigley has shaken the historical kaleidoscope into new patterns and provided us with fresh reasoning as to how and why whole civilizations rise and fall. His conclusions are so clearly formulated, so reasonable and inevitable, that we can only wonder that no one has ever discovered these truths before." - dust jacket. x, [4], 281 pages. Index. Book clean, tight and unmarked withe moderate wear. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade mylar. A quality copy. Quigley later wrote the classic "Tragedy and Hope" and served as mentor to Bill Clinton... View More...
Signed and inscribed by Quigley to fellow Georgetown Professor John Lydgate upon front endpaper. "... Professor Quigley has shaken the historical kaleidoscope into new patterns and provided us with fresh reasoning as to how and why whole civilizations rise and fall." - from dust jacket. 281 pages. Index. Quigley later authored the classic "Tragedy and Hope" and served as mentor to Bill Clinton during his stay at Georgetown. Some fading to boards. Moderate quantity of annotations to contents. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Includes ... View More...
676 pages including index. The great events of three decades shown in political, economic, military, technological, social, and intellectual context. Originally published as Part II of Tragedy and Hope. "Deals successively with World War II, the transformed age that followed, the period of nuclear rivalry and the Cold War, and the era of shifting international power balances in the 1960s." - from back cover. For this edition Quigley included a new introduction providing a perspective for the period. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Quigl... View More...
Signed and inscribed by Carroll Quigley upon half-title page. xi,[1],1348 pages. Index. "Shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century." - dust jacket. Most notable for its revelation of plans for a global government, based upon author's access to secret archives. Quigley mentored Bill Clinton at Georgetown. Clean with moderate wear. Unmarked but for incidental 1/4" ball pen mark to page 105. Prior owner's bookplate inside front board. Back hinge starting. We've been... View More...
pp. xi, 1348. Index. "Shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century." - dust jacket. Author served as mentor to future President Bill Clinton at Georgetown. Most notable for its frank admission of a secret plan to create a global government. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality early copy of this monumental work. Please note that despite what may appear elsew... View More...
First printing. 1348 pages. Index. "Shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century." - from dust jacket. Most notable for its frank admission that there is in fact a secret plan to create a global government. Author served as mentor to Bill Clinton while the latter studied at Georgetown. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of the true first printing. Weems p.69.; 8vo - over... View More...
"Carroll Quigley, historian and teacher at Georgetown University, died January 5, 1977, leaving unfinished this manuscript upon which he had been working for the preceding twelve years. His colleagues and friends, upon reviewing the manuscript, decided to press forward with its publication. Although the manuscript is frustratingly incomplete in time sequence - it ends its narrative in the fifteenth century - it carries further toward completion the uniquely anthropological holistic analysis of history which is the theme of his earlier works... Quigley is incredibly successful in abstracting e... View More...
