Carroll Quigley,who Bill Clinton called "his mentor", spent much of his great tome "Tragedy and Hope", http://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Hope-History-World-Time/dp/

Carroll Quigley,who Bill Clinton called "his mentor", spent much of his great tome "Tragedy and Hope", http://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Hope-History-World-Time/dp/094500110X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277172072&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Hope-History-World-Time/dp/094..., writing the history of the intertwined relationship of the ruling and financial elites. Skip the second-hand histrionics you may read about the man and the book, and go right to the source.