Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

BIBLIOGRAPHYBIBLIOGRAPHYThe bibliography on conspiracies is large, much larger than what Irefer to here, but it is also obscure. The books come and go, but rarelydo they stay in print for very long. The exposés are written by criticsof the organizations. Few of them are formally trained historians orsocial scientists. The exceptions to this rule tend to be Marxists andnew left historians. The conventional histories are written by men whoprobably know about the personal and economic connections thathave made possible certain groups' exercise of power, but the authorsare careful not to emphasize these connections. They may tell you thata group of men had great influence, but they do not explain why.Above all, they do not follow the money. Isaacson and Thomas'sbook, The Wise Men, is a representative example. Why were these sixmen so powerful in foreign policy circles (especially "Chip" Bohlen)?We are not told. The biographies of Eluhu Root, Henry L. Stimson,and John J. McCloy are sometimes large, yet they reveal remarkablylittle about the personal connections by which these three menwielded power. These three men were the unofficial chairmen of theunofficial American Establishment, each in succession, followed byDavid Rockefeller, McCloy's "protégé," according to McCloy'sbiographer. How did they gain their influence? Endless repetitions ofthe phrase "public service" conceal rather than explain.When we consider the amount of ink and media time devoted to theWatergate break-in, an event which brought down a President butwhose perpetrators' actual motivation was never clearly explained, weshould be curious. If all that media coverage and the millions ofdollars of government investigative money did not reveal anacceptable answer as to why the break-in occurred, think of the reallyimportant political events of history. How can we make sense ofthem.; How can we discovered what really happened and why ithappened.; For example, could the Watergate break-in really havebeen engineered by John Dean in order to learn whether theDemocrats had learned of his new wife's possible connection to aprostitution ring, which is the thesis of Colodny and Gettlin's SilentCoup (St. Martin's, 1991)? If so, then there was less to Watergate thanthe investigators had imagined, and the fallout from it was remarkablehttp://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/bibliography.htm (1 of 10) [5/26/2000 1:48:30 PM]