Why read Imperial Brain Trust?

Book cover of Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy

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News stories and academic studies often focus on the options chosen by a president and his officials during a crisis. Central to such decisions, however, are the forces that determine what options show up on the agenda and what options do not even make it to the table. Imperial Brain…

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Daniel C. Hellinger

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This classic revisionist history is often stigmatized as a “conspiracy theory.” The reason, I believe, is that it challenges the myth that American world hegemony over the past 75 years was thrust upon a country by post-World War II circumstances.

The authors show how a blueprint for military and economic dominance, a permanent war economy, and a national security state was laid out secretly by a committee of economic, intellectual, and government elites convened by the State Department and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in 1938.

This book is not one more jeremiad about the Illuminati or global elite…

From Daniel's list on separating conspiracy fact from fiction in American politics.