The Power Elite - Best-Selling Book on American Political Influence | Perfect for Political Science Students & History Enthusiasts

I figured it would be an expose on the 'who's who' of the time.As soon as I started reading I realized I was going to be disappointed in the fact it was not.But once that wore off - I realized what I had in my possession.A complete, extremely thorough, breakdown of how corporatism had taken over our society as of 1959.Thorough enough to make the staunchest defenders of contemporary narratives, both right and left, go quiet and realize they don't know anything.You don't know American society until you've read this book.And you will be shocked to find out the pessimist guessers are far closer to reality than those who 'tow the establishment line'.For the record: it was written in 1959.The nation being taken over by corporatism was only acknowledged by a fraction of people, probably only historians, and the reality of the banking hegemony that rules the world - doesn't even get brought up.The military gets major mentions, as it was the rise of the Cold War - before the symptoms of the banking hegemony had started making absolute economic gains in total trade (1990s) - 'communist nations' being brought under the umbrella of Manchester liberalism. (The fall of the USSR, the building up of China, etc.)Because globalism hadn't taken the economic spotlight yet, there of course is no mention of foreign interests at play in the power structure, nor the rise of power in the monolithic intelligence community that formed in the proceeding decades.I wish a 2020 version of this book existed.