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

It's a ton of information and the books creation is enigmatic and some stories about this book are nebulous and very interesting.Single handedly Quigley's Bad Actor Government Field Giude , effectively as well as uniquely peels away the layers of secrecy and pulls open the veil like its the first Sunday in Spring as the ever bubbly task master rips open the shades and the blinding light drives out the darkness. Strap in, it's time to rock and roll.

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.

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.

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.

If you are looking for names behind the scenes this is your source. There are endless names. It got overwhelming. The author also writes extremely long paragraphs, with lots of names and titles and positions...... You have to be deeply in love with politics to enjoy this book. I am not so it wasn't a good choice for me. I was bored.

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).