[center][large]The Rich and the Super-Rich : A Study in the Power of Money Today[/large][/center]
[center][large]Ferdinand Lundberg - The Rich and the Super-Rich.pdf (2.39 MB)
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[justify]Ferdinand Lundberg (1902-1995) began his career as a class-conscious critic of American democracy in the 1930s. This 1968 book was a best-seller, going through a dozen printings in just one year. It's basically a thousand- page, well-researched rant against the few hundred rich people who run the country, and rig the system so that they don't have to pay taxes. Almost all of the important wealth in America is inherited -- the myth that anyone can make it is designed to keep people stupid, and too busy to complain.
Lundberg's level of detail is impressive, and he could have easily continued for another thousand pages. The most valuable chapters are those that describe the American tax system. Philanthropic foundations were set up by and for rich people as thinly-disguised holding companies, to keep wealth and power inside the family, and keep the tax man at bay. Lundberg's account of the 1962 Wright Patman investigation into foundations is quite thorough; moreover, it's the only one we've seen. This book frequently mentions people like the the DuPonts, the Fords, and the Rockefellers; Lundberg also wrote "The Rockefeller Syndrome" in 1976. If he were still with us, and able to watch the creeping globalization being forced on us by wealthy elites, Lundberg would be one of the few American commentators qualified to say, "I told you so." [/justify]
[justify]Ferdinand Lundberg (30 April 1905 ? 1 March 1995) was a 20th century economist and journalist who studied the history of American wealth and power.Ferdinand Edgar Lundberg, of Swedish and Norwegian parentage was born in Chicago and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Columbia University.
He started working in Chicago in 1924, transferred to New York in 1926 and joined the Wall Street Journal staff in 1927. He became a specialist for financial reporting and he covered the Wall Street Crash of 1929. He held several positions in his lifetime: a journalist with United Press International, the Chicago Daily News, and the New York Herald Tribune (1927?1934); and editor for the Twentieth Century Fund. In 1934 he resigned from the Herald Tribune to do research for his two major muckraking books of 1936 and 1937. He also lectured as an adjunct professor of social philosophy at New York University from 1952 to 1968.
He was the author of a 1936 social biography of William Randolph Hearst entitled Imperial Hearst, detailing his political involvements, and of America's Sixty Families, an exposure of the leading groups in business and finance. A later exploration of American wealth entitled The Rich and the Super-Rich is less critical. He co-wrote, with Carol Bram, a strong critique of the US charter called Cracks in the Constitution. In Scoundrels All (1968), a collection of sceptical quotes on politicians, he admits to a preference for H. L. Mencken. Along with a psychiatrist, Dr. Marynia Farnham, Lundberg wrote a 1947 book titled, Modern Woman: The Lost Sex, whose contention was that contemporary women suffered from neuroses they were likely to pass on to the next generation.
At the time of his death he lived in Chappaqua, New York.[/justify]
Imperial Hearst : A social biography (1936) (reprinted with a biographical preface on Lundberg by Charles Beard (vii-x).
[small]Ferdinand Lundberg - Imperial Hearst A social biography.pdf (25.03 MB)[/small]
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America's Sixty Families (1937)
Who controls industry ? And other questions raised by critics of America's 60 families ( 1938)
The Treason of the People (1954)
The coming world transformation (1963)
The Rich and the Super-Rich : A Study in the Power of Money Today (1968)
[small]Ferdinand Lundberg - The Rich and the Super-Rich.pdf (2.39 MB)[/small]
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... super-rich
The Rockefeller Syndrome (1968)
Cracks in the Constitution (1980)
The Myth of Democracy (1989)
Politicians and Other Scoundrels (1992)
The Natural Depravity of Mankind (1994)