Carroll Quigley

Carroll Quigley  link Amazon NNDB Sourcewatch Website (Academic, Historian, Statecraft/Analyst)
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Born	1910-11-09 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	1977-01-03 Washington DC
Alma mater	Harvard University
Exposed	UK Deep state, US Deep state
Interests	US/Deep state
A US historian who used unprecedented access to US deep state archives to write Tragedy and Hope

Carroll Quigley was an eminent American Professor of History who taught at Harvard and Princeton. One distinctive feature of Quigley's historical writings was his assertion that secret societies had played a significant role in recent world history. He was a deep political researcher with unprecedented access to the archives of the Trilateral Commission and researching the histories of the UK deep state and US deep state, which he collectively termed "The Anglo-American Establishment".

Opinions

Quigley stated that he was in broad agreement with the designs of the elite groups he studied, but disagreed that they should keep their activities secret, hence his publication of books about them. During his long and distinguished career, he had always regarded himself as a conservative who had steadfastly defended the liberal tradition of the West. He was an early and fierce critic of the Vietnam War and the activities of the military-industrial complex and his stature was recognised in most quarters and the praise was fulsome.

Presidential praise

One of his former students and ardent admirers Bill Clinton became US President in 1992 and recognised his debt to the academic. When he accepted the Democratic Party nomination, he mentioned Quigley by name quoting him as saying that

"America was the greatest Nation in history because our people had always believed in two things: that tomorrow can be better than today; and, that every one of us has a personal moral responsibility to make it so."

Publications

An unabridged version of Tragedy and Hope

Quigley wrote a number of books, perhaps the most compelling of all, was his history of the world, during the previous hundred years, entitled "Tragedy and Hope".

Tragedy and Hope

Full article: Tragedy and Hope

Quigley produced Tragedy and Hope, a pioneering expose of the US deep state which sold out very quickly, after which the publishers destroyed the plates. It was suppressed and very hard to find for many years.

This book was nevertheless highly influential on an older generation of truth seekers, including John Taylor Gatto. Gatto, by his own account, spent 6 months seeking the book and after finding one in the rare book room of New York library, had it stolen before returning it some months later.

The Anglo-American Establishment

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Full article: The Anglo-American Establishment

Carroll Quigley wrote the The Anglo-American Establishment, a study of anglophone deep politics. This focuses particularly on the evolution of the UK deep state about a century ago. The Milner Group lists on this website were derived from it. His information about the group was derived from an unnamed insider, whom Stanley Monteith identified as Alfred Zimmern‎, who left the group in 1922.

Two-party system

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“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy. … Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies”
Carroll Quigley (1966) 

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