Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy, by Murray N. Rothbard
This powerful concise, definitive booklet is the best introduction to power elite analysis of the American nation-state ever published, It is now read and praised world-wide by academic scholars and the attentive general public. It was first brought to my attention while serving on the senior national staff of a presidential campaign in 1984 by our chairman. Its author served as an advisor to that campaign. It was initially published as a 15 page article for a financial newsletter, World Market Perspective, in that year, and later after the 1995 premature death of Rothbard, the full complete expanded version was subsequently published with excellent introductions by Justin Raimondo and Anthony Gregory. For years I used the original abbreviated newsletter version when I taught high school Economics and U. S. History with a series of short answer essay questions. My students loved it – “Rothbard Rocks!”
If you ever wanted to know the backstory of how elites came to dominate America’s political economy and foreign policy, here is your guide.
For those seeking further deep explorations on this subject of the privileged class of political and financial elites long dominating America’s political economy and foreign policy, here are more important sources to investigate:
Who Rules America: Power Elite Analysis, the Deep State, and American History, by Charles Burris
Hidden History: Where Organized Crime and Government Meet, by Charles Burris
Power Elite Analysis — The Necessity To Question Authority, by Charles Burris
The Deep State or Invisible Government: A Brief Bibliographic Retrospective, by Charles Burris
The American Deep State (Amazon book list)
Establishment Studies (Amazon book list)
Libertarian Class Analysis (Amazon book list)
