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Naked Capitalist Paperback – January 3, 1993

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In "The Naked Capitalist" , Dr. Skousen reviews the book "Tragedy and Hope" by Carroll Quigley. It reveals how some of the richest people in the world have supported communism and socialism. Why would they support what appears to be the pathway to their own destruction? Dr. Quigley has been associated with many of these dynastic families of the super-rich. Dr. Skousen therefore writes as an authority on the world's secret power structure. His answers to the above question will astonish you.
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W. Cleon Skousen is best remembered as a popular author, speaker and teacher who lectured in every state and province in North America, and in more than 60 countries world-wide. He was a student of history and a scholar of law, specializing in the principles of Freedom, the U.S. Constitution, economics, and ancient history and scriptures.
He was invited to write a new constitution for Canada and the proposed United States of Latin America, and he published a model constitution that could be adopted by nations everywhere. He served in the FBI for 16 years, four years as Chief of Police in Salt Lake City, and ten years as a university professor. He was a prolific writer and produced three national best sellers, The Naked Communist, The Naked Capitalist, and The Five Thousand Year Leap. Eight of his books were used as college texts, and several were translated and published in other countries.
Dr. Skousen was born in Canada, and returned to the U.S. with his family at age ten. He spent two years in Mexico, two years in England, graduated from San Bernardino College in California, and received his juris doctor degree from George Washington University Law School. He was admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and before the District Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.
His seminars on the Constitution have been taught to several million across the U.S., and among his students were dozens of U.S. Senators and Representatives, two Supreme Court justices, and several candidates for President. He believed knowledge and understanding were key to maintaining a free country, and spent his entire adult life opening up complex issues for deeper understanding by students and audiences all around the world.
Dr. Skousen and his wife, Jewel Pitcher of San Bernardino, California, are the parents of eight children, 50 grandchildren, and more than 120 great-grandchildren.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Reviewer; Eighth Printing edition (January 3, 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0686091647
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0686091646
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
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Excellent summary of the elite mindset
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Excellent summary of the elite mindset
Elitists are not like the rest of us. Their main activities go unreported, hidden away from the public eye thanks to a centuries-old system of mutual protection. They band together in family enclaves, secretly making policy behind the scenes while the common people blindly believe their elected officials are in control.So when Dr. Carroll Quigley wrote his history of the "network" in his magnificent tome 'Tragedy and Hope', we were given rare insight into how the elitist system operates-- especially its alarming goals of world domination and what provokes those within it to feel they are the only ones qualified for this task.Quigley says, "I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies...but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known."'The Naked Capitalist' is a finely-distilled version of Quigley's 'Tragedy and Hope'. In this thin volume, author W. Cleon Skousen introduces the key players in the network, their past achievements and their disturbing plans for the future. Think it's all nonsense? Then you don't realize that these groups have employed thousands of the best and brightest minds in various well-funded think-tanks for many generations, not only shaping your own opinions and your own perceived choices, but predicting--decades in advance--how you and I will react to every step of their agenda. Nothing takes these people by surprise, because the network extends into every nation, every major corporation, every form of media and communications, exerting subtle pressures that move the plan along its well-designed (but well-disguised) course.The Naked Capitalist is a vital book that will help you make sense of the present economic downturn, and give you a taste of what to expect. Hint: the elites who run the world do not believe democratic societies are the 'best way'. Which means, they are subtly eliminating them worldwide....
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Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2009
I read this book 20 years ago and still find it interesting and relevant. I just ordered the hardbound edition for my home library. I have not seen any other rational explanation for the current state of affairs in our nation and the world. Are there some errors in this book? Probably. Conspiracies are not conducted in the bright sunlight for all to see, so any contemporaneous book attempting to expose them will most likely be shown to contain errors if scrutinized 40 years later. Is the basic premise of the book correct? Probably. One thing is for sure: If the world is rapidly sinking under the power and influence of a power grabbing Global Conspiracy (and it sure seems like it is), we won't find it unmasked until it is way too late to do anything about it.

I am amused by Factfinder "Ernie" (another reviewer of this book) and his attempts to debunk this and other 40 year on conspiracy books. Read his other reviews. According to himself, he is sifting through thousands of pages of documents searching for the nuggets that will debunk these "Conspiracy Theory" books, and save us from believing such kook theories. Perhaps Ernie would like us to believe that there are no more conspiracies attempting to grab power, to enslave the masses, or to rule the world. Sure there have been plenty of historical conspiracies, but as a world population, we have evolved past this. Human nature has changed! There are no more conspiracies anywhere in the world. We are an enlightened world populace now. Right on! We are glad to live in such an enlightened age Ernie! You sir have done us a great favor by unmasking the last great conspiracy. The conspiracy of all those authors 40 years ago to create evidence of a global conspiracy to rule the world that in fact (if you believe Ernie) does not now, nor did it ever exist!

Well, I have to get back to work...I have bills to pay. Now Ernie on the other hand, has all the time in the world. Time to sift through thousands of documents with the sole intent to debunk 40 year old conspiracy theories. And time to write massive book reviews proving once and for all that all these books were indeed a hoax. In fact a conspiracy in and of themselves! Hmmm.....Makes a guy wonder if Ernie might have gotten a "grant" from the Rockefeller Foundation to do some research.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024
This short book will give you a fine overview of how wealthy elitists manipulate politicians for their own ends.
There are no conspiracy theories here. Skousen, unlike Quigley actually provides footnotes and references.

A historian who writes a 1300+ page book with no notes is a novelist, not a professional historian.
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2004
Like others, I sought out, among other books, "Tragedy and Hope" by Dr. Quigley, Clinton's Foreign Service School professor at Georgetown to look up Skousen's references for myself after reading "The Naked Capitalist." As it turns out, Quigley's book was just one source for Skousen.

In the back of his book, Skousen describes the idealogical shift of the depression-era Democratic party the same way my liberal American government professor from an urban metropolitan university did in one of my class lectures several years ago.

I was fascinated by Skousen's discussion on how tax-exempt foundations can be used to wield great influence in world affairs by destabilizing and indebting governemts on the one hand while encouraging the West to make charitable donations for "worthy causes" on the other. I couldn't help but noting the similarities between Skousen's take on tax-exempt foundations and the establishment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. After establishing their foundation, the "M" stock symbol on the NYSE was made available to Microsoft for the taking - Microsoft declined and elected to remain on the NASDAQ. (Macy's department stores have the NYSE "M" slot now). Also, after Bill Gates established his foundation and went abroad saying that computers couldn't solve the third world's problems (an odd sentiment for one of the world's foremost capitalists), the governemt antitrust suit against Microsoft fizzled into oblivion. Bill Gates acquiesced to "play ball" by using his excess fortune in the same way described in Skousen's book.

When the issue of lowering inheritance taxes came up in the news a few years ago round about that same time, Bill Gates' father who headed up the Gates Foundation publicly spoke out against lowering the tax, reasoning that trillions of dollars stands to change hands over the next few years between boomers and their children; when aging boomers are faced with the choice of bequeathing their estate to their children and losing a substantial amount in taxes or bequeathing it to a tax-exempt foundation, they'd give it to a foundation. In essence, the inheritance tax helps ensure their continued existence.

Is this the "noose around the neck" of the working class that Quigley alludes to in "Tragedy and Hope?"

For further insight and corroboration, read "Phillip Dru: Administrator" by Edward Mandell "Colonel" House, one of FDR's top advisors and chief architect of the New Deal.

For an entertaining and well-informed look at American and world affairs, watch the 1976 miniseries, "Captains and the Kings", starring Richard Jordan based on the Tayler Caldwell novel.

Skousen isn't making this stuff up.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2023
You should check out this book. A good follow up after the Naked Communist. Eye opening indeed, and a great insight into how things are happening in our world today.
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mike lees
5.0 out of 5 stars Tragedy and Hope in 100 or so pages
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2022
I used the product to gain an insight to the conspirators that rule the world
Iwan Levin
5.0 out of 5 stars Great thanks
Reviewed in Canada on March 13, 2017
I have read The Naked Communist a while ago. This follow up script is much appreciated by people like me who love to learn the untold details of history. I recommend this book for everyone to place today's events in perspective.
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Mr N McAllister
4.0 out of 5 stars the insights are still just as relevant today
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2014
this is a good analyses and review of another book and well done. From a rational perspective but quite dated. Worth reading and not too long. I would give it more stars if it was more up to date but the book it reviews and era is quite a while back. However the insights are still just as relevant today
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