This American syndicated columnist and journalist specializes in human rights and the historical interplay between economics and politics in the Middle East. His work also examines petroleum policy, corporate abuses, and the financial underpinnings of Nazi Germany. His analyses reveal the complex relationships between global power and human destiny.
"Nazi Nexus" is the single explosive volume that details the pivotal corporate American connection to the Holocaust. The work includes some of the biggest names in business from IBM and General Motors to the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Institution.
IBM and the Holocaust tells of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany, beginning in 1933 in the 1st weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into WWII. As the 3rd Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest & genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification & cataloging programs of the 30s to the selections of the 40s
In 1933, the Zionist movement concluded a controversial pact with the Third Reich transferring some 60,000 Jews and $100 million to Jewish Palestine.
Winner, Speech Communication Association Award for Distinguished ScholarshipThis is a book that, almost singlehandedly, freed scholars from the narrow constraints of a single critical paradigm and created a new era in the study of public discourse. Its original publication in 1965 created a spirited controversy. Here Edwin Black examines the assumptions and principles underlying neo-Aristotelian theory and suggests an alternative approach to criticism, centering around the concept of the "rhetorical transaction." This new edition, containing Black's new introduction, will enable students and scholars to secure a copy of one of the most influential books ever written in the field.