{"product_id":"9781615779000","title":"1000 Americans","description":"The Big Powers, Press, Plutocrats \u0026amp; Politics\u003cp\u003e1000 AMERICANS is loaded with explosive revelations of plans by that master-group of financiers and politicians often referred to cynically as 'the boys in the back room.'\u003cbr\u003eThe author takes us boldly into all the nation's significant back rooms, the seamiest and the most sumptuous, and shows us where the real controls are concealed. We see not only how they are manipulated but also by whom.\u003cbr\u003eThis daring account would seem a fantastic nightmare were it not so fully documented from unimpeachable sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy George Seldes (1890-1995): crusading activist journalist and editor who knew world leaders personally, subject of the film, \"Tell the Truth and Run.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"George Seldes was the father of the alternative press.\" - I . F. Stone.\"There have been three great independent journalists in this century - Lincoln Steffens, I.F. Stone and George Seldes... The children and grandchildren of the \"1000 Americans\" that Seldes said control America still rule today.\" - Randolph T. Holhut\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTopics:\u003cbr\u003eNames names of those who control our institutions through the media and pressure groups. 99% of media push the agenda of the powerful and cover up suborning of the public interest and exploitation of the people by private influence. Example of Montana and Anaconda: the USA as a company town.\u003cbr\u003eThe genesis of Time magazine; financed by Harriman and Morgan; covering up the Ambassador Page cable to Wilson in 1917, calling for war on Germany to serve Morgan financial interests. Conflict of interest between magazines and advertisers.\u003cbr\u003ePro-Hitler line of Wall-Street-controlled newspapers. Commerce Secretary Hoover helps munitions makers circumvent the Geneva arms control conference. Dupont, ally of IG Farben and campaign funding champion, elects Hoover president.\u003cbr\u003eThe white-washing of Wall Street. Each major industry dominated by a few corporations controlled by a few families like Rockefeller and Morgan. Financing of the Liberty League, the KKK, et al. Smedley Butler and the 1934 Morgan putsch against FDR. The Commission on Freedom of the Press condemns the press as liars and prostitutes. War profiteers destroy our hopes for a world of peace, prosperity and the American way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART ONE: BIG POWERS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Enemies of America\u003cbr\u003e2. Power, Press and Politics\u003cbr\u003e3. JP Morgan Stops the St. Lawrence River\u003cbr\u003e4. NAM-to-Press-to-Congress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART TWO: BIG MAGAZINES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Magazine Press\u003cbr\u003e6. The Morgan House and Magazines\u003cbr\u003e7. Morgan Empire and Luce Empire\u003cbr\u003e8. The Morgan Empire: Press Relations\u003cbr\u003e9. The Seven Big Monthly Magazines\u003cbr\u003e10 The Seven Big Weeklies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART THREE: BIG BUSINESS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Big Business in the War\u003cbr\u003e12. duPont, Hoover and Hitler\u003cbr\u003e13. The Top of the Pyramid\u003cbr\u003e14. Who Buys the Elections?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART FOUR: BIG REACTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. Big Money Men\u003cbr\u003e16. Big Money Organizations\u003cbr\u003e17. The General Welfare in the Atomic Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAPPENDICES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The 13 Most Powerful Families in America\u003cbr\u003e2. The 12 super rulers of American industry\u003cbr\u003e3. The power of the Big Eight banks\u003cbr\u003e4. Forty-five corporations with more than $1,000,000,000 in assets\u003cbr\u003e5. Noted names on the Morgan \"preferred list\"\u003cbr\u003e6. JP Morgan \u0026amp; Co. and the St. Lawrence Seaway\u003cbr\u003e7. JP Morgan \u0026amp; Co. and public power\u003cbr\u003e8. The Page Cable\u003cbr\u003e9. President Wilson on causes of wars\u003cbr\u003e10. America's worst newspapers\u003cbr\u003e11. DuPont influence on the American press\u003cbr\u003e12. The newspaper press controls the majority of radio stations\u003cbr\u003e13. Curtis Publishing Co. finances\u003cbr\u003e14. Time ownership\u003cbr\u003e15. The press in chains\u003cbr\u003e16. Control of the NAM\u003cbr\u003e17. Industrial espionage\u003cbr\u003e18. NAM press relations\u003cbr\u003e19. The NAM: National Association of Manufacturers\u003cbr\u003e20. The first fascist plot to seize the U.S. Government\u003cbr\u003e21. The fascist plot officially confirmed\u003cbr\u003e22. The big subsidizers of American reaction and fascism\u003cbr\u003e23. 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