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Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil
by: Gerard Colby, Charlotte Dennett

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.925092
EAN: 9780060167646
ISBN: 0060167645
Label: Harpercollins
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 960
Publication Date: 1995-05
Publisher: Harpercollins
Studio: Harpercollins
Sales Rank: 739793

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Editorial Review:

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Examining the motives, deeds, and tragic repercussions of their intervention in the Amazon and Central America, a study reveals the legacies of Nelson Rockefeller, who secured natural resources for American corporations, and Cameron Townsend, who saved souls at any cost.

Amazon.com Review:
This extraordinary saga moves from the Oval Office to the Amazon rain forests to show how Cold War intrigue linked a powerful American family, the U.S. government, and a missionary organization in a forty-year campaign to conquer the Amazon. At the heart of this story are two intensely ambitious men: Nelson Rockefeller, scion of the liberal and immensely wealthy Standard Oil family, and William Cameron Townsend, founder of the ultraconservative Wycliffe Bible Translators. Although leaders of opposing camps, they found common cause in the struggle against fascism and then communism, with the result that hundreds of thousands of Amazonian tribespeople died or were displaced. The systematic campaign of colonization fathered by Rockefeller and Townsend was a chilling foreshadowing of American intervention in the Third World to secure valuable natural resources in the name of democracy.

Customer Reviews

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- Ambition IS THIS book!
Let me be at least the second reviewer to say this is among the very best books I have ever read.

It makes the exotic seem at the center of change and hundreds of aspects of domestic politics gleam with light from angles never imagined. Even its wide ranging title fails to capture the all encompasing and yet never laborious nature of its contagious curiosities.

And these curiosites are not peripheral or for amusement. One is dead certain that one is reading about the turn in the American Century. The 1960's was a time when the US was making a decision that few knew about; should we remain country that produces goods for the rest of the world working more multilatterally (at least compared to today) or should we become more unilatteral and focus our economy more on ... Read More

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- I simply had no idea.....

I accidentally came upon this book in my local library in 2005 while perusing various titles concerning the backers of conservative politics in America. I'd never paid much attention to Nelson Rockefeller since he occupied a vaunted position among America's wealthy while I was a lowly school teacher. From the first page I was in a state of shock after learning of the collusion that drove our country's "intervention" in Central and South American politics. America's involvement was based solely on the accumulation of natural resources from the dozens of small republics and countries, all in the name of "spreading Democracy." I soon found this was simply a cover for shameless takeover of legitimately established governments through various means. The mix of establishment agencies and bureaus ... Read More

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- Tragic that this book is so little read
Amazingly detailed and crucial history tome; page after page of meticulous hair-raising research showing the deep connections between Big Oil, N Rockefeller, missionaries, the CIA, the Kennedys, and the beleaguered, doomed Amazon and its indigenous people. I did get overwhelmed, and though I am a speed reader and like to think I am educated and politically astute, in particular about the ongoing genocide and ecocide of the native cultures and wilds of the Americas to further big business, and about the link between missionaries and anthropologists and this cultural genocide/ecocide, I had to return the book to the library (confession, I didn't buy it) before absorbing a fraction of the material. But one cannot read this book speedily or quickly absorb the astounding and disturbing facts here. I agree, ... Read More

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- The Political and Economic History of the US from 1930-1980: Those who Control and Shape the Movement
This book is simply superb in the information it presents. This book receives my higest level of recommenation. Colby spent 19 years researching the material for this book. The story is largely told through quotes, letters, and words of the Rockefellers, Presidents, Politicians, and big business leaders.

The book covers many topics. There are two main story lines. The first is the invasion of foreign lands and people using religion as the means to pacify the indigenous people, with the central focus on SIL and Cam Townsend. I found this part of the book interesting but not as interesting as the other topics in the book.

The other story line emphasized politics, economics, and influences from the Rockefellers; focuses on Nelson and his manipulation of presidents and use of government ... Read More

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- Thy will be done
This is one of the half dozen best books I have ever read. It answered a lot of questions as to how the power brokers operate. I found some answers to the Kennedy death.

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