Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations

✍ Scribed by Parmar, Inderjeet

• Book ID: 107805265
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 564 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780231517935

✦ Synopsis

Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar marks the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's only superpower, all in the name of benevolent stewardship.

Parmar begins in the 1920s with the establishment of these foundations and their system of top-down, elitist, scientific giving, which focused more on effecting social, political, and economic change than in solving modern society's structural problems. Consulting rare documents and other archival materials, he recounts how the American intellectuals, academics, and policy makers affiliated with these organizations institutionalized such elitism, which then bled into the machinery of U.S. foreign policy and became regarded as the essence of...