Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World In Our Time

This is a fantastic book. I first found it many years ago and read it (maybe a different edition) and found it fascinating, cogent, andunderstandable. More, it makes much of the history of the last centuries understandable. I had lent my copy and never got it back.Then it was out of print many years. I'm glad to have this edition which seems expanded from what I had read. A minor quibble: theproofreading of this edition is a bit sloppy in a couple of place -- numbers left out (where probably they left a space to look up theauthoritative number) or units are wrong. Does not detract from what he said. A friend of mine was one of his students atGeorgetown University many years ago and was glad to see that he'd "finally finished the book he'd been talking about so much."

Like a number of books that are getting harder, if not impossible, to get, this one is a must.

Most readers quote from this book to illuminate the ideas that the Illuminati and more importantly baking institutions really run both the U.S. government and the world. However, the reader must take the time to read the whole book. Dr. Carroll Quigley wrote a book for the ages and especially with its focus on the first half of the 20th century. The book was written in 1966 and Dr. Carroll Quigley died in 1977, but his theories on the economic policies on the West in such countries as the United States, Great Britain, France, and Nazi Germany were fascinating to me. I have to admit that in some cases, the man was so brilliant that I did not understand all the subject material in his book. I can honestly write that he was a great historian who loved to write history books, and teach, which came out in his book. Rest In Peace (R.I.P.) to Dr. Carroll Quigley!

Very comprehensive. Really really long but well worth the time.

Very important book. This guy was brilliant. Connected and very hard working. If you want to understand what he said about the world go to him not all the CTs that write or wrote about him.

Excellent book.This book was hard for me to digest. It was written at a level and depth that made me work a lot more than I had thought I could to try to understand all it had to offer. I have a better understanding of the subjects I read but will need to return to it at a future point to try to understand those thoughts that are still unclear to me.

I stumbled onto this book reading another interesting book. It is quite old and quite interesting but a difficult read. Not written in a modern style, maybe thats my problem. Very detailed look at history from a perhaps jaded view, but I do find it thought provoking. My struggle, thus the 3 stars, was the difficulty of the read itself. Certainly not a bad book by any means, not as useful as I first thought.

I can't recommend this book more strongly for those who want a view of history published in 1965 by an author/historian who didn't write much but who had a refreshing view on the trace of world history on the early and mid-20th Century. Bill Clinton said in a speech that this book had a significant influence on him; I can see why. Buy it, read it, enjoy it. Highly recommend buying one of the older versions instead of the newer, cheap knockoffs. I bought a cheap one first; the spine broke on me (1,300 pages - a heavy book).

Uma ótima aquisição. Um dos melhores livros que li nos últimos anos. Consegui comprar por 24 reais frente a sua versão em português que está custando 180 reais.

Always wanted a copy for my library

Written by a slightly deluded Harvard Graduate who is full of praise for himself. It is a big book and covers some important subjects well. Crucially it does not have a bibliography. He misses the point that the financial system that we have largely evolved out of the opium heroin trafficking that the West was enaged in in the 19th century in China, which was controlled by the family of David Sassoon, an Iraqi Jew, whose family in 1865 founded the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation aka HSBC. The British East India Company a kind of Blackwater of its day fought two "opium wars" to defend Sassoons business. Which was drug running Indian opium to China. The Sassoons basically built Hong Kong with drug money and they own the place. The family then moved to London. In 1887 Sir Edward Sassoon, David Sassoons grandson married Aline Caroline de Rothschild in London. Lord James Sassoon was part of David Camerons government and his relative Ewan Cameron ran HSBC in 1873 in Hong Kong, at the time the Camerons like most people who worked for Sassoon were jewish. David Sassoons father, Sheikh Saleh Sassoon, was the Nassi of Baghdad, the Jewish pope. In 1900 a third war was fought to protect Sassoons opium heroin trade, this time it was fought by the "8 Nation alliance" which included most members of NATO, including the US. Europe, was built with drug money from Chinese addicts and the Industrial Revolution was fueled by drug money, to protect the trade in China. It was not until the communists took over that the lucrative opium trade was defeated. Wars are about money and nothing is more profitable than the drug trade. The banks are funded by the trade and it is what keeps empires going.These Harvard guys do not know shit. American education is of questionable value. The book does offer some valuable information but the context, the root causes and the main players are missing. "A" for effort, but overall a "D" grade. I can only imagine that it was written in that way to protect the establishment, to mislead.google greatgameindia.com HSBC Swissleaks.Also recommend The politics of Heroin by Prof Alfred McCoy ( also misses the point but nails the drug trade after WW2)

Hard work to read and the pages are dense covering about 1 1/2 pages to 1 of the older version. But the truth on the Milner group and the true history from about 1900 to 1970 makes this the most important history book ever written. Carroll Quigley is not someone to be under-estimated and his analysis in most places is good, although I found him far too trusting of the Secret Network he describes. For conspiracy researchers this is a must have book if you are to be able to understand what really happened and hold y our own in a history debate, this is the book to have to study more than any other book on history ever written. A book well worth reading and going through- it is quite a hard read but every now and again the nuggets contained are priceless and well worth the effort.

Le prime 7 pagine (indice compreso) non si possono leggere perche' i caratteri sono troppo piccoli e non possono essere modificati. Da pagina 8 tutto funziona bene.Sarei tentato di restituirlo ma non lo faccio perche' il contenuto e' molto interessante.Amazon farebbe bene a farlo correggere.