Essential Reading for the Aspiring Artist (in no particular order):
The History of the Rhodes Trust: 1902-1999, Anthony Kenny
Milner's Young Men: the "Kindergarten" in Edwardian Imperial Affairs, Walter Nimocks
Operational Research and the Social Sciences, Michael C. Jackson
A Short History of International Affairs; 1920 - 1939, G. M. Gathorne-Hardy
Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society, Jose M. R. Delgado, M.D.
Society as the Patient, Lawrence K. Frank
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Nuclear weapons and foreign policy, Henry Kissinger
Institute of Pacific Relations : Asian scholars and American politics, John N. Thomas
Prospect for America: The Rockefeller Panel Reports, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Limits to Growth, Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III
The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness, G. William Domhoff
Psychiatry and the CIA: Victims of Mind Control, Harvey M. Weinstein, M.D.
Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet, Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos
Contested World Orders: Rising Powers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-State, Michael Zurn
British Security Co-ordination: British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940-45, Nigel West
The Health of the Mind, J. R. Rees
Utopiates: The Use and Users of LSD-25, Richard Blum and Associates; foreword by Nevitt Sanford
Problems of Population and Parenthood: Being the Second Report of and the Chief Evidence Taken by the National Birth-Rate Commission, 1918-1920, Arthur Frank Payne
Cultural patterns and technical change: A manual prepared by the World Federation for Mental Health, Edited by Margaret Mead
The Launching of a New Ark: The First Report by the World Wildlife Fund, P. Scott
under the Marshall Plan: The Politics of Productivity and the Marketing of Management Science, Anthony Carew
Studies in Social History: A Tribute to G.M. Trevelyan, edited by J.H. Plumb
Colonel House in Paris: A Study of American Policy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (Supplementary Volumes to the Papers of Woodrow Wilson), Inga Floto
Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance _ Collected Essays Volume III, Frances A. Yeats
The Politics of Knowledge : The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
The Pilgrims of Great Britain: A Centennial History, Anne Pimlott Baker
Problems of Consciousness: Transactions of the Third Conference, edited by Harold A. Abramson
A History of Scroll and Key 1842-1942 and History of Scroll and Key 1942-1972, Maynard Mack and A. Bartlett Giamatti
The American Rhodes Scholarships: A Review of the First Forty Years, Frank Aydelotte
A Time for Angels: The Tragicomic History of the League of Nations, Elmer Bendiner
Road Maps to the Future: Towards More Effective Societies, Bohdan Hawrylyshyn
In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation, Andrew Goliszek
The Scientific Outlook, Bertrand Russell
Personality in Nature, Society, and Culture, Clyde Kluckhohn
Charity Begins At Home: Generosity And Self-interest Among The Philanthropic Elite, Teresa Odendahl
The Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Essays for R. Gordon Wasson, Thomas J. Riedlinger
The Problem of Germany, Hoyt & Carl E. Schorske Price
The Psychotic: Understanding Madness, Andrew Crowcroft
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future, Andrew Pickering
A New World Order, Anne-Marie Slaughter
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, Robert Kagan
Marie Stopes, Eugenics and the English Birth Control Movement: Proceedings of the 1996 Conference of the Galton Institute, Robert A. Peel
Tensions That Cause Wars; Common Statement and Individual Papers By a Group of Social Scientists Brought Together By Unesco, Hadley Cantril
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The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science, Ruth Barton
Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth: From Ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism, Algis Uzdavinys
The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature, Philip Ball
Upanishads, Swami Nikhilananda
Iamblichus and the Theory of the Vehicle of the Soul, John F. Finamore
Pseudo Dionysius: The Complete Works, Pseudo Dionysius
The sovereign state: The secret history of ITT, Anthony Sampson
Porphyry's Letter to His Wife: Concerning the Life of Philosophy and the Ascent to the Gods, Porphyry
Schroders: Merchants & Bankers, Richard Roberts
H.P. Blavatsky and the SPR: An Examination of the Hodgson Report of 1885, Vernon Harrison
Behavior, Technology, and Organizational Development: Eric Trist and the Tavistock Institute, Richard Trahair
Centurions in Public Service (Particularly as President, Supreme Court Justices & Cabinet Members), Nathan Frederic S.
The Threefold Life of Man, Jacob Boehme
Upadesa Sahasri: A Thousand Teachings, Shankara
Divina Proportione, Luca Pacioli
The Council on Foreign Relations: A Short History, George Gavrilis
A Radiophone in Every Home: William Stephenson and the General Radio Company Limited, 1922-1928, Ian L. Sanders and Lorne Clark
The Pilgrims of the United States; A Centennial History, Anne Pimlott Baker
Davenport's Dream: 21st Century Reflections on Heredity and Eugenics, Jan A. Witkowski
The Continuing Battle For The Control Of The Mind Of Youth, Porter Sargent
Philo’s Reply To Questions Concerning His Association With the Illuminati, Adolph Freiherr Knigge
Toynbee Hall and Social Reform, 1880-1914: The Search for Community, Standish Meacham
The Millionaire's Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented America's Air Power, Marc Wortman
Spies in the Vatican, John Koehler
Occult Feminism: The Secret History of Women's Liberation, Rachel Wilson
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA,Tim Weiner
Prisci Theologi and the Hermetic Reformation in the Fifteenth Century, James D Heiser
Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA, Michael Graziano
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Treason in America, Anton Chaitkin
Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America, edited by Bruce J. Schulman
Logical Syntax of Language, Rudolf Carnap
CYBERNETICS The Macy Conferences 1946–1953 Transactions, edited by Claus Pias
The Psychology of Radio, Hadley Cantril and Gordon W. Allport
The Effect of Modern Technology and Organization upon Social Behavior, Hadley Cantril
Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation, Miles A. Powell
The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy, Harold A. Abramson
The Hidden Dimension, Edward T. Hall
Problems of Consciousness: Transactions of the Second Conference, March 19-20, 1951, Harold A. Abramson
The Enneads, Plotinus
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, Giordano Bruno
Porphyry's Launching-Points to the Realm of Mind: An Introduction to the Neoplatonic Philosophy of Plotinus, Porphyry
Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939-1945, Inderjeet Parmar
Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power, Inderjeet Parmar
Mysterium Magnum, Volumes I & II, Jacob Boehme
The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology, Lily E. Kay
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Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America, E. Richard Brown
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Foundations: Their Power and Influence, Rene A. Wormser
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Changing Images of Man, O. W. Markley, Willis W. Harman
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The Survival of the Wisest, Jonas Salk
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The Impact of Science on Society, Bertrand Russell
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The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of The Club of Rome, Alexander King and Edward Jay Epstein
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COVID-19: The Great Reset, Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret
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The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution, H. G. Wells
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The New World Order, H. G. Wells
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Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, James H. Billington
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A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-first Century, Jacques Attali
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The Ghost in the Machine, Arthur Koestler
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The Game of Nations: The Amorality of Power Politics, Miles Copeland
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Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, Carroll Quigley
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology, Gregory Bateson
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Cybernetics: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions (Revised edition), Claus Pias
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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, Frances Stonor Saunders
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Who Paid the Piper? : CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders
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The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists, Colin A. Ross
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Plutocrats: A Rothschild Inheritance, George Ireland
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Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927, Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs
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Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955, Sigmund Diamond
The Anglo-American Establishment, Carroll Quigley
Baron James: The Rise of the French Rothschilds, Anka Muhlstein
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The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848, Niall Ferguson
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999, Niall Ferguson
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel P. Huntington
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The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America, Hugh Wilford
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Propaganda, Edward Bernays
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Crystallizing Public Opinion, Edward Bernays
Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Zbigniew K. Brzezinski
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The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska, John W. DeCamp
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The Underground History of American Education, Volume I: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling, John Taylor Gatto
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Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists, Antony C. Sutton
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America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones, Antony C. Sutton
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The Federal Reserve Conspiracy, Antony C. Sutton
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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis, Antony C. Sutton
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Principles of secondary education, Alexander James Inglis
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UNESCO: Its Purpose and Philosophy, Julian Huxley
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The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
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Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments, Dr. John C. Lilly
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The Leipzig Connection (Basics in Education), Paolo Lioni
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Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann
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The Art Of War, Sun Tzu
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The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, and Political and Economic Decline of the United States of America, John Coleman
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The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society, Norbert Wiener
