{"product_id":"carroll-quigley-life-lectures-and-collected-writings-9781516922741","title":"Carroll Quigley: Life, Lectures and Collected Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eProfessor Carroll Quigley was a top American historian and theorist on the evolution of civilizations. He believed that knowledge cannot be divided into parts, that the world can be viewed only as an interlocking, complex system. This view complemented his life: he had reveled in the traditions and contrasts of his neighborhood, eschewed fame in favor of keeping his emotional and social development on track.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn an age characterized by violence, extraordinary personal alienation, and the disintegration of moral values, Quigley chose a life dedicated to rationality. He wanted an explanation that in its very categorization would give meaning to a history which was a record of constant change. Therefore the analysis had to include but not be limited to categories of subject areas of human activity. It had to describe change in categories expressed sequentially in time. It was a most ambitious effort to make history rationally understandable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn such views, in 1961 Quigley published \"The Evolution of Civilizations\". Its scope was wide-ranging, covering the whole of man's activities throughout time. It attempted a categorization of man's activities in sequential fashion so as to provide a causal explanation of the stages of civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1966, Quigley published \"Tragedy and Hope\", a work of exceptional scholarship depicting the history of the world between 1895 and 1965. It was a commanding work, 20 years in the writing, that added to Quigley's considerable national reputation as a historian. The book reflected Quigley's feeling that \"Western civilization is going down the drain.\" That was the tragedy. When the book came out in 1966, Quigley thought the whole show could he salvaged; that was his hope.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the last 12 years of his life, from 1965 to 1977, Quigley taught, observed the American scene, and reflected on his basic values in life. He was simultaneously pessimistic and radically optimistic. Teaching was the core of his professional life and neither his craving to write nor his discouragement with student reaction of the early seventies diminished his commitment to the classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnlike his underlying faith in the efficacy of teaching, Quigley found little basis for optimism about the future of American society: \"We are living in a very dangerous age in which insatiably greedy men are prepared to sacrifice anybody's health and tranquility to satisfy their own insatiable greed for money and power.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMuch of the joy of teaching left Quigley in his last years. He complained bitterly that his 1970s college students were woefully under-educated and ill-prepared for college level work and that too many of them had their minds elsewhere, fixated more on bringing about a social revolution than on achieving an education.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYet pessimism about American society did not weaken a radical optimism rooted in his essential values: nature, people, and God: \"The need for others is present on all levels; the physical, emotional, and intellectual. Indeed, every relationship has in it all three aspects. The desire to help others experience these things and to grow as a result of such experiences is called love. Such love is the real motivating force of the universe and is, in its ultimate nature, a manifestation of the love of God. Because while God is pure Reason and man's ultimate goal is Reason, it cannot be reached directly and must always be approached step by step, not alone but in companionship with others, and thus through love. Thus love of others, ultimately love of God, are the steps by which man develops reason and slowly approaches pure Reason.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the fields of economics we have great recognition for names likes Keynes or Friedman. Professor Quigley, though a top American historian, has escaped our attention. This book, which is a compilation of some of Quigley's writings and most important lectures, is an attempt to fill the void.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne Volume, 400 Page\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarroll Quigley was born in Boston and attended Harvard University, where he studied history and earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. He taught at Princeton University, at Harvard, and then at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 1941 to 1976.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter teaching at Princeton and Harvard, Quigley came to Georgetown University in 1941 and became an on-line resource for Washington. He lectured at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Brookings Institution, the Stare Department's Foreign Service Institute and consulted with the Smithsonian and the Senate Select Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addition to his academic work, Quigley served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy, the Smithsonian Institution, and the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration in the 1950s. He was also a book reviewer for The Washington Star, and a contributor and editorial board member of Current History. Quigley said of himself that he was a conservative defending the liberal tradition of the West. He was an early and fierce critic of the Vietnam War, and he opposed the activities of the military-industrial complex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs such, in 1961 Quigley published the book \u003cem\u003eThe Evolution of Civilizations\u003c\/em\u003e. It was derived from a course he taught on world history at Georgetown University. The scope of \u003cem\u003eThe Evolution of Civilizations\u003c\/em\u003e was wide-ranging, covering the whole of man's activities throughout time. It was analytic, not merely descriptive. It attempted a categorization of man's activities in sequential fashion so as to provide a causal explanation of the stages of civilization. Quigley coupled enormous capacity for work with a peculiarly \"scientific\" approach. He believed that it should be possible to examine the data and draw conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1966, Macmillan Company published \u003cem\u003eTragedy and Hope\u003c\/em\u003e, a work of exceptional scholarship depicting the history of the world between 1895 and 1965 as seen through the eyes of Quigley. \u003cem\u003eTragedy and Hope\u003c\/em\u003e was a commanding work, 20 years in the writing, that added to Quigley's considerable national reputation as a historian. \u003cem\u003eTragedy and Hope\u003c\/em\u003e reflected Quigley's feeling that \"Western civilization is going down the drain.\" That was the tragedy. 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