Thy Will Be Done - The Conquest of the Amazon - Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil (Forbidden Bookshelf)
epub | 67.65 MB | English | Author :Gerard Colby | B0762DCZX1 | 2017 | Open Road Media

Book Description :

A "blistering exposé" of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction (Publishers Weekly).
What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America.

Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies-all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to undermine the belief systems of the...

Category : | Political Corruption & Misconduct, 20th Century History of the U.S., Corruption & Misconduct in Politics