The Rich & the Super Rich

by Ferdinand Lundberg

Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1969, [Revised Edition], hardcover, dustjacket

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corers, ex-library with stickers and stamps to endpapers, front endpaper removed, tape residue to covers, stamps to bottom and top fore edges, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping, creasing and small tears, sticker to spine (see photographs)

“Democracy, meritocracy, technocracy – these are the catch words of the world today, of a society where property is supposed to be less important than scientific or managerial expertise.
Ferdinand Lundberg’s penetrating study turns this belief inside out to show that even in America, ‘the land of opportunity, where every truck driver carries a millionaires’ cheque-book in his pocket’, not only financial power but also the bulk of political power is still firmly held in the hands of a few dozen old-line families – the Du Ponts, the Rockefellers, the Mellons, the Fords – who use it to remain untouchable.
Tracing their tax arrangements, their charitable foundations, their interlocking networks of banking companies, investment trusts and industrial holdings, Mr Lundberg demonstrates the existence of a tight-knit financial-political elite, whose huge and still-growing influence is matched by similar plutocracies in other western countries..”