You're listening to Jay's Analysis, Integrating Film, Philosophy, Geopolitics, Literature, History, Economics, Intrigue, and Espionage, Only at jaysanalyst.com and now jays analysis podcast with your host jadire You're listening to Jay's analysis. This time we come to the subject of tragedy and hope, something that I've been intending to get to for a long time, and I hope.

And I hope that we can really cover a lot of ground and not aware of anyone else

doing a full talk series on the entire book so I think that it's going to be beneficial

it's going to be a lot of talks that we that we've got here and I think that you're going to want to take notes and enjoy it.

Because it's one of the most seminal books, I'd say, of the 20th century in terms of

revealing really how geopolitics works and the strategy of what we're going to call the

Atlantisist Anglo-American establishment,

which is, of course, Quigley's term that he uses in another text that's of that same title,

the Anglo-American Establishment, another book that he's written.

And, of course, he also wrote on military history,

but the reason that tragedy in hope is so significant is that it was intended to be a history of the 20th century from the perspective of the Western establishment and from the perspective of the CFR archives.

And so that's why Quigley's book stands out.

It's not your typical history of Western civilization.

It's not your typical, I don't know, Fernand Broadell book on the history of civilizations

or something like that, sort of a mainline historian.

It's really a policy book for those in the establishment.

And of course Quigley was a Harvard University graduate historian then later at Georgetown University where he spent the most of his career.

And so what he's going to do is essentially put forth the real history from the archives

of the Roundtable Group, the Milner Group, and so forth, who will later in the book be called the

Cliventon set, especially during the time of World War II, who we might just simply refer to

as kind of the English-European banking dynasty.

And eventually this will include the American banking dynasties, Rockefeller's, Schiffs, Warburgs, and others, who,

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