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The Naked Capitalist Hardcover – December 1, 1998

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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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144 pages
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English
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Buccaneer Books
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December 1, 1998
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6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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0899683231
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978-0899683232
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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 ‏ : ‎ Buccaneer Books; Hardcover edition (December 1, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0899683231
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0899683232
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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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.

Mr. 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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Rob Weinhold

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Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2019

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This is one of the most profound books one can read about the direction our country has been heading in the years following the Socialist Democrat takeover of the Government and the attack on the Constitution by FDR and the liberal, progressive movement that followed him. Read this book to understand the signs that have been in print for decades and the cautionary warnings about the abuse of power and the enslavement of the American population by the stranglehold of intrusive policies and the concentration of power by the Establishment Elitists in Washington DC and the industrial complex.

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SomeGuyInTexas

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Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2019

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I have the New Millinnium Edition of the Quigley book and having a really tough time. The problem is the page numbers in the Naked Capitalist book and the Tragedy and Hope 101 book are not good anymore. The Quigley book is not in chronological order so it is very hard to find the juicy bits referenced in these other books. I was also very disappointed to find that the Quigley book has no index. I wonder if the manuscript of the Quigley book has been tampered with on purpose. Great material but long sections of it are crushingly boring. Need this book to help separate the chaff. But I will persevere.

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Lucky Guy

Explains the present

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2021

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This 1970 book clearly documents and explains the (counterintuitive, truly shocking) made-in-hell alliance that has existed between the very rich elites in America and England, and the hardcore Communists/Socialists for a hundred years. If you’ve noticed that they seem to be on the same side in recent history, this is why — they’ve been that way under the radar our entire lives.

The first 50 pages will convince you. The whole book is 144 pages. And the font is big.

If you read this book, written in plain English, you will understand what’s happening right now.

Genuinely mind altering.

SEMINAL RED PILL

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M Brown

I wish everyone would read this book

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2021

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We all need to be aware of what’s been going on throughout history regarding those with money and power.
I know some people would rather keep their heads in the sand and pretend none of these things are happening.
That’s why they continue to happen - people can’t handle the truth. I think part of it is that we don’t know what to do with the information.

We need grass roots organizations that help to educate voters and create change at that level.

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Phillip M. Rose

Valuable resource? Yes. Objective review of Tragedy and Hope? Hardly.

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2008

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"The Naked Capitalist", first published in 1970, is a review and critique of a much longer book, "Tragedy and Hope", first published in 1965. While the references are inevitably dated, this book contains insights that are essential for understanding our current situation. While I wholeheartedly recommend it, it important to take into account the book's context and point of view.

This book must be understood as an attack from the right on "Tragedy and Hope" -- not the 21st century neocon right, but the old fashioned right that may be best thought of as a libertarian point of view these days. Mr. Skousen's approach is consistent with his conservative religious background (LDS) and his background in law enforcement (FBI and later Salt Lake City Chief of Police). Skousen's academic background is reflected in his exegesis of "Tragedy and Hope".

I thought his defense of J. Edgar Hoover and Joe McCarthy was thought provoking, and not to be dismissed out of hand as most left-leaning people would tend to do. By illustrating the clear link between the Eastern Establishment and Communism, the author perhaps provides a better understanding of the criticism of corporate media as "Liberal". Corporate owned media did at times cover the issue of Communists in government in a way that tended to downplay the extent to which the government, particularly the State Department, was infiltrated by Communists, which could lead a right-wing or even a neutral observer to believe that the fourth estate had Communist sympathies.

But that's only part of the story. The corporate owned media has also had a history of covering up the extent to which Fascism has infested USA finance, corporations and government. One example from the time span that Skousen focused on, but which he failed to mention, is the Fascist plot to overthrow the US government shortly after the start of FDR's first term. Jules Archer's recently re-printed book, The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR , tells this story persuasively. The earliest incarnation of the HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities), the Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1937) actually investigated not only domestic Communist activities, but domestic Fascist activities as well, including the plot just mentioned. Contemporary press coverage of the Congressional hearings and the plot itself was shameful for the most part, particularly the coverage by Time magazine and the New York Times. They covered the story in a way similar to later coverage of UFO and Elvis sightings, poking fun at the very suggestion that such a plot could even exist.

While I am grateful that Skousen wrote this unique review/critique of "Tragedy and Hope", I would urge readers to take "The Naked Capitalist" as a point of departure in their study of the power elite, not the final word. The plutocrats who run things behind the scenes take on many guises, using politicians and movements across the political spectrum to further their malevolent aims. They quite obviously used both Fascism and Communism simultaneously for a time and have moved on to other totalitarian movements, such as neoconservatism and various religious movements. Focusing excessively on these movements and philosophies only serves to distract us from discovering the actual puppet masters.

I must finally express my disappointment with the inclusion of a vitriolic attack by Al Smith on FDR's New Deal policies in an appendix. Al Smith had preceded FDR both as Governor of New York, and as a Democratic presidential nominee. Smith lost the nomination in 1932 to FDR, who, unlike Smith in 1928, went on to win the election. There is the argument that while Smith had maintained his previous progressive beliefs, the Democratic Party under FDR had moved on to Socialist tendencies. (In other words, the Democratic party left him, he didn't leave the party.) However, if Skousen were to choose a disaffected Democrat to criticize the New Deal, he could not have picked a better example of a sellout, a turncoat, and perhaps even a traitor, than Al Smith. Smith was first of all a sore loser, and secondly had by that time become a 100% owned asset of the Eastern plutocrats, the very class that "The Naked Capitalist" rails against. Smith was a prominent member of the Liberty League which sponsored the Fascist plot against FDR I referred to above. I again refer to The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR for details.

By suggesting that Al Smith was still the brown bowler wearing "Happy Warrior" in 1936 that he had been in the 1920s disingenuous to put it mildly.

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Richard Hardy

Understanding the cooperative interactions between Capitalists and communists

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2018

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Understanding the cooperative interactions between Capitalists and communists

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David C

Fascinating book that will make your blood boil...

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2008

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If this book were written by anyone less credible, you'd have to pass it off as conspiracy theory nonsense. But Skousen is anything but a conspiracy theory nut. He is a very well respected scholar. So what makes this book so infuriating is to realize both political parties are being swayed towards collectivism and totalitarianism through the robber-barons' self-percieved notion of good for the world and their "generous" donations to non-profits that promote this communist agenda. Thus, the Naked Capitalist reveals the wealthy elite to be promoters of exactly what would destroy not them, but the vast middle class of America. Ever notice that Karl Marx was fighting against the Bourgesie and not the aristocracy? The Bourgesie is the middle class. The rich want us middle-classers to simply revert to the equitable poverty of socialism while they continue to live luxuriously at our expense. This is a must read.

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McB

One of my favorites

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2019

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One of my favorites - a bit dated now. Explains who the non-occult powers are that influence the world.

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Mr N McAllister

the insights are still just as relevant today

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2014

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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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Iwan Levin

Great thanks

Reviewed in Canada on March 13, 2017

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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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