Rich and the Super Rich-Pa [Paperback]

FERDINAND LUNDBERG (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 812 pages
• Publisher: Lyle Stuart (January 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0818404868
• ISBN-13: 978-0818404863
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #964,462 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Money is Power, April 15, 2003

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John Bonanno (Hiram, Maine USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rich and the Super Rich-Pa (Paperback)

Mr. Lundberg's deconstruction of the relationships of powerful families in the United States is fascinating reading. Power seeks power incestuously and the web of power isn't just wealth. It is boards of corporations, memberships in clubs, and the bonds of marriages. This isn't just a screed against money; it is an anthropological study of the rulers of this country. They seldom seek publicity. That would be so nouveau riche. Even though this is a snapshot taken in the middle of the last century, the social structures revealed had been established since the beginning of the Republic and there is no reason to doubt that they persist today. Read and learn.

34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars P L E A S E....R E P R I N T...T H I S...C L A S S I C..!, October 1, 2004

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Patricia "A Reader" (Queens, New York, and Denver, Co, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the Power of Money Today (Hardcover)

Loaded with facts and figures, this gigantic book seems at first

intimidating -- but it is really quite easy to read and under-stand. Being able to "swallow" what's there is a different thing, however -- one is horrified to learn that our US Democracy isn't truly a democracy at all....that it's ruled by

a powerful ogliarcy that keeps its power -- and most of the identities of its members, truly secret.

Since this book was published in the 1960s, there is info

that is absent....but also some secret info that isn't in

more modern books, as the power elite have since covered some

of the tracks herein listed.

For me, the most valuable part of the book is the description of the "common (mass) man" vs. the elite. (See the wonderfully annotated index -- as the page numbers are different between the paperback and hard-cover.) The rich really ARE

different from you and I -- but Mr. Lundberg's reasonings why

are 1000 times more accurate, (and 1000 times more frightening),

than F. Scott Fitzgerald's! The reasons given make terrible,

logical sense -- and make one not only appreciate their accuracy,

but also appreciate, greatly, such "traitors to their class" as

Robert Kennedy and (to me, anyway), John Kerry -- people who,

despite their wealth, see "mass men", (and women), as nothing

more, (and nothing less), than fellow human-beings! It's too

bad there are not more of them!

Mr. Lundberg died a few years ago. I found this out

searching the New York Times database. I did not find his

obituary -- but I did find that of his wife, who died even

more recently. Sadly -- and tellingly -- hers was NOT a

"feature" obituary -- but one which, instead, had to be

inserted, (and paid for), by her family. Although it is

possible that Mrs. Lundberg preferred it this way -- wanting

to be one of the "mass" of humanity to the end, it is also

quite possible that the "powers that be" wanted to "bury"

the name of Lundberg, (and Ferdinand Lundberg's crusading

books!), as much as possible! As long as his books remain

buyable -- and especially if this wonderful classic is

someday soon reprinted -- I will know we haven't fallen into

a dictatorship, (yet!) I am glad that I bought a copy when

it first came out, and I am super-glad to have been able to

have bought a newish copy on Amazon! Lundberg -- and all

of us freedom-loving, knowlege-questing "Lundbergians",

live!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The ultimate reference for billionaires, April 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Rich and the Super Rich-Pa (Paperback)

The more things change the more they stay the same. What we really need is for Ferdinand Lunberg to give us an up-to-date version. This book showed us where all the money was and how they kept it and controlled it. If you are a capitalist, you will want to read this and will want an updated version. Incredible new fortunes are being made today, but what happened to all the old money?