Du
Pont Dynasty: Behind the
Nylon Curtain (Forbidden Bookshelf 6) by
Gerard Colby
FIVE STARS
Two hundred years of
history; the DuPont family moved to America in 1800 and rode the
Industrial Revolution wave to the top. This intriguingly provocative
and extensive tome narrates the tale how dedicated and focused
determination capitalized into a winner take all.
Two hundred plus
years of America’s scramble to it’s world wide top position are
step by step documented, the good, bad and ugly. This excellent book
is an eye opening prospective I recommend to those who desire
to look beyond news hype.
Excerpts:
Strange
coincidence: of all the records of congressional hearings stacked
in the library, one was notably missing when I visited there in 1970,
the 1934 Dickstein, McCormick hearings on the aborted plot for an
armed coup against Roosevelt.
The CIA’s
covert operation was in direct violation of United States law.
Congress had refused to authorize any monies for the CIA to overthrow
the Nicaraguan government and some Congressmen were furious that the
Reagan administration had gone ahead anyway and ordered the CIA into
action, backed by thousands of U.S. troops in Honduras.
America copies
the Spanish conquistador inquisition crazed imperialist model.
Economic Supremacy,
later paraphrased by Professor Woodrow Wilson, insisted that
expansion was the key to wealth and called for America to accept its
historical destiny as the new center of empire and make the Pacific
and Asia its colonies. Alfred Thayer Mahan agreed, calling on the
federal government to accept “The White Man’s Burden” by
building a large navy that would forcibly bring the white,
Anglo-Saxon, Protestant God and civilization to the heathen world.
Nixon quote...”I
an Not a crook!”
1966, Smathers also
voted against legislation aimed at the Du Pont estate’s control
over the Florida National banks. Since then, he has left the Senate
floor for its darker wings, where he lobbies for southern wealth and
large corporations. Indeed, Smathers has been acquiring a whole new
set of very interesting friends in Florida. Smathers was the guest of
honor at the ground-breaking ceremony of the Key Biscayne Bank, in
which Richard Nixon held savings account No. 1. This bank was largely
controlled by Charles G. (Bebe) Rebozo, a close friend of Nixon and
of right-wing Cuban counterrevolutionaries in Miami. Another director
was Robert Abplanalp, another millionaire friend of Nixon, owner of a
Bahamas island frequently used by President Nixon as a retreat, and
landlord of one of the rented houses in Nixon’s official Florida
White House compound at Key Biscayne.
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