Balder Ex-Libris - Lundberg FerdinandReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearLundberg Ferdinand - America's 60 Familiesurn:md5:6b572cd86f2c81bff5bf0378c3f762612013-04-28T09:39:00+01:002013-04-28T09:39:00+01:00balderLundberg FerdinandAmericaUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Lundberg_Ferdinand_-_America_s_60_Families_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Lundberg Ferdinand</strong><br />
Title : <strong>America's 60 Families</strong><br />
Year : 1937<br />
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Foreword. IN THIS work we arc not concerned with the methods, legal or illegal, by which the great American fortunes of today were created. These fortunes exist. Their potentialities for good or evil are not altered whether we accept Gustavus Meyers' account of their formation or whether we give credence to the late John D. Rockefeller's simple statement : "God gave me my money." What this book purports to do is to furnish replies, naming names and quoting book, chapter, and verse, to two blunt questions: Who owns and controls these large fortunes today, and how are these for- tunes used? To answer this second question it is necessary, of course, to examine the role of great wealth in politics, industry, education, science, literature and the arts, journalism, social life and philanthropy. The reader is warned that this work is not predicated on the premise of James W. Gerard, who in August, 1930, named fifty-nine men and women that, he said, "ran" America. In Mr. Gerard's list were many persons deemed by the author of slight importance, many of them merely secondary deputies of great wealth and some of them persons whom Mr. Gerard undoubtedly flattered by including in his select list. The factor determining the inclusion of persons in this narrative has at all times been pecuniary power, directly or indirectly manifested. This work will consider incidentally the various arguments brought forward by the apologists of great fortunes. These arguments arc to the effect that huge fortunes are necessary so that industry may be financed; that the benefactions of great wealth permit advances in science, encourage writers and artists, etc.; that the lavish expenditures of wealthy persons "give employment" to many people; and that in any case these big fortunes are dissipated within a few generations. More and more it is becoming plain that the major political and social problem of today and of the next decade centers about the taxation of great wealth. It is hoped that this book, the first objective study of the general social role of great fortunes, will shed at least a modicum of light upon this paramount issue. RL. <strong>...</strong></p>Lundberg Ferdinand - Imperial Hearst A social biographyurn:md5:8350958117e2d9e879cf87640cd1f70e2013-04-15T23:01:00+01:002013-04-15T23:01:00+01:00balderLundberg FerdinandUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Lundberg_Ferdinand_-_Imperial_Hearst_A_social_biography_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Lundberg Ferdinand</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Imperial Hearst A social biography</strong><br />
Year : 1936<br />
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Ferdinand Lundberg was born in Chicago in 1902 of Norwegian and Swedish parentage, and was educated in the public schools there, in Crane College, Chicago, III., New York University and Columbia University. He began newspaper work in 1924 as a "leg man" on the Chicago Journal, published by John Eastman, who had been Hearst's first business manager in Chicago. He learned something of the Hearst method from his work on the Journal and the necessity to compete with reporters on the Hearst papers. Later he was assigned to the State's Attorney's office during the heyday of Capone, O'Bannion and other Chicago gang leaders, working in the newspaper milieu depicted by Hecht and MacArthur in The Front Page. In 1926 Mr. Lundberg left what he calls "this turmoil" to join the staff of the United Press and was transferred to New York in April of 1927. He covered the take-offs of Lindbergh, Byrd and Chamberlain. Toward the end of 1927 he joined the Wall Street staff of the New York Herald Tribune. He was covering the Stock Exchange during the crash of 1929 and wrote all the front-page stories of that debacle, and attended all of the "emergency" bankerpress conferences throughout 1931-33. In June of 1934 he resigned from the Herald Tribune. Mr. Lundberg began a thorough research into the career of Hearst. To support himself he wrote magazine articles and did correspondence for several European publications. He was aided in his Hearst research by several well-known public men and by important organizations, some of which turned over private documents to him. <strong>...</strong></p>Lundberg Ferdinand - The rich and the super-richurn:md5:6802d640b357f9ce3f9ef7827eb3eef52012-07-17T12:37:00+01:002014-05-07T20:46:32+01:00balderLundberg FerdinandJewNorth America <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Lundberg_Ferdinand_-_The_rich_and_the_super-rich_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Lundberg Ferdinand</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The rich and the super-rich A Study in the Power of Money Today</strong><br />
Year : 1968<br />
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One THE ELECT AND THE DAMNED. Most Americans - citizens of the wealthiest, most powerful and most ideal-swathed country in the world - by a very wide margin own nothing more than their household goods, a few glittering gadgets such as automobiles and television sets (usually purchased on the installment plan, many at second hand) and the clothes on their backs. A horde if not a majority of Americans live in shacks, cabins, hovels, shanties, handme- down Victorian eyesores, rickety tenements and flaky apartment buildings - as the newspapers from time to time chortle that new Russian apartment-house construction is falling apart. (Conditions abroad, in the standard American view, are everywhere far worse than anywhere in the United States. The French, for example, could learn much about cooking from the Automat and Howard Johnson.) At the same time, a relative handful of Americans are extravagantly endowed, like princes in the Arabian Nights tales. Their agents deafen a baffled world with a neverceasing chant about the occult merits of private-property ownership (good for everything that ails man and thoroughly familiar to the rest of the world, not invented in the United States), and the vaulting puissance of the American owners. It would be difficult in the 1960's for a large majority of Americans to show fewer significant possessions if the country had long labored under a grasping dictatorship. How has this process been contrived of stripping threadbare most of the populace, which once at least owned small patches of virgin land? To this fascinating if off-color question we shall give some attention later. Statements such as the foregoing on the rare occasions when they are ventured (although strictly true and by no means new)1 are bound to be challenged by the alert propaganda watchdogs of the established order. These proprgandists, when hard pressed, offer an incantation about a mythical high American standard of living which on inspection turns out to be no more than a standard of gross consumption. The statements must, therefore - particularly in this age of burgeoning one-sided affluence - be monumentally and precisely documented and redocumented. Not that this will deter the watchdogs, who have limitless resources of casuistry and dialectic to fall back upon as well as an endless supply of white paper from denuded forests. <strong>...</strong></p>