BIBLIOGRAPHY

I realize that reading the words, “Power Elite” so many times in much of the writing here mandates a broader understanding of the denotative meaning of that two-word phrase. To assist the reader in obtaining that understanding and also in defense against the reasonable accusation of sounding like a broken record, I shall provide a growing bibliography for this series of articles and observations.

The first book in the list is aptly-named, “The Power Elite.” Written by C. Wright Mills and published by the Oxford University Press, 1956, the book provides a well-written, documented picture of this phenomenon. Though girdled to a large extent by the formation, structure, and functioning of the power elite of the United States, it is none-the-less a seminal work of surprising strength and clarity that opens windows on the nations of the world. The bibliography that accompanies the Notes in the book provides strong supportive evidence not only of the veracity of the material but also shields people like me from feeling like obsessed one-note instruments as we try to analyze and explain the events of the past, the present, and the anticipated future.

"There is . . . an uncomfortable degree of truth in Mills' attack. . . . This book is so carefully documented, it deals with such real problems, it hits so many sore spots that it deserves to be read." This is book jacket blurb written by A. A. Berle, Jr. for The New York Times Book Review.

The book is still available for sale on Amazon.com and of course for reading, in most libraries. Today, there are 5,820,000 hits for "Power Elite" on Google. C. Wright Mills' work is still, after seven decades, atop the list of authoritative writers on the subject.

As I choose different targets for my arrows, I will try to accompany the essays with additions to the bibliography list. Secret societies of which there are uncountable numbers, have provided nests for the incubation of members of the Power Elites. Enormous amounts of research leading to enormous numbers of books on this subject, will provide source material for fuller understanding of how Power Elites came into being and how such groups were born and functioned within their spheres of influence. So, in preparation for further reading, I offer "A History of Secret Societies," by Arkon Daraul, published byKensington Publishing Corp. in 1987.

I hope to trace the generations of Bush family ties to secret societies from which significant numbers of Power Elite families climbed the ladder to their high positions in the United States. With this knowledge, it will enable American citizens of even the "Red states" to understand how George W. Bush, a person of low achievement in any sphere of life, a person without intellect, charisma, or language; an unread bumbler with a miniscule attention span and hardly the capability of being a ventriloquist's dummy (which he was for the various knees upon which he was positioned), became president of the United States of America. (Someone other than myself will surely write a yellow jacketed soft cover book titled, "Presidenting for Dummies.")