Need info on Tragedy and Hope FIRST PRINTING
May 5, 2011 2:15 PM Subscribe
Anybody know where I can get a digital version of the difference between the FIRST PRINTING of "Tragedy and Hope" and later versions of "Tragedy and Hope" by Carroll Quigley?
There is actually a big difference between the two copies. Notice a first printing can cost over a thousand dollars.
The reason is that Carroll Quigley was a Georgetown professor in the early sixties. He had incredible access to deep inside DC politics and in fact wrote about his access and what goes on behind the scenes. Apparently, there is such a thing as a "shadow government" and he wrote extensively about it in "Tragedy and Hope" to the dismay of. . .many.
The first printing was quickly yanked off the shelf and a second printing made available. The difference between first and second (and subsequent) printings is about 200 pages. So (the theory goes) there's 200 pages out there that contain information you're not supposed to know!
If I had the money, I'd just pony up the $1400 and get the hardcopy of the first printing. But, heh, I don't got that kinda money! Furthermore, I'm not interested in the collection value of actually having a paper version of the first printing. I'm not interested in the physical book. I'm interested in the information. And so I come to you, the hive mind.
Does anyone know of any reliable source where I can download the 200 or so pages that are the difference between the first and later printings?
[carrollquigley.net (a legitimate site) says they have the entire first printing--1966--downloadable for free but turns out it is the 1975 version--no good.]
There is actually a big difference between the two copies. Notice a first printing can cost over a thousand dollars.
The reason is that Carroll Quigley was a Georgetown professor in the early sixties. He had incredible access to deep inside DC politics and in fact wrote about his access and what goes on behind the scenes. Apparently, there is such a thing as a "shadow government" and he wrote extensively about it in "Tragedy and Hope" to the dismay of. . .many.
The first printing was quickly yanked off the shelf and a second printing made available. The difference between first and second (and subsequent) printings is about 200 pages. So (the theory goes) there's 200 pages out there that contain information you're not supposed to know!
If I had the money, I'd just pony up the $1400 and get the hardcopy of the first printing. But, heh, I don't got that kinda money! Furthermore, I'm not interested in the collection value of actually having a paper version of the first printing. I'm not interested in the physical book. I'm interested in the information. And so I come to you, the hive mind.
Does anyone know of any reliable source where I can download the 200 or so pages that are the difference between the first and later printings?
[carrollquigley.net (a legitimate site) says they have the entire first printing--1966--downloadable for free but turns out it is the 1975 version--no good.]
Response by poster: @candyland
Thanks but. . .
This seems to have a problem I'm running into quite a bit. The copyright clearly says 1966 but I can't seem to find "first printing" anywhere. Also, the forward was written in 1996, thirty years after the first printing. You can tell because the forward author refers to 1996 in past tense.
How can you be sure the text is the complete "first printing" text?
posted by Lord Fancy Pants at 11:47 AM on May 6, 2011
Thanks but. . .
This seems to have a problem I'm running into quite a bit. The copyright clearly says 1966 but I can't seem to find "first printing" anywhere. Also, the forward was written in 1996, thirty years after the first printing. You can tell because the forward author refers to 1996 in past tense.
How can you be sure the text is the complete "first printing" text?
posted by Lord Fancy Pants at 11:47 AM on May 6, 2011
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posted by candyland at 6:27 PM on May 5, 2011