All the Presidents' Bankers

The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power

De: Nomi Prins

Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin

Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an explosive account of the 100-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street that transcends a simple analysis of money driving politics or greed driving bankers.

Nomi Prins ushers us into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, and Ivy League universities that binds presidents and financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage, and protégé relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people. This unprecedented history of American power illuminates how financiers have retained their authoritative position through history, swaying presidents regardless of party affiliation. It explores the alarming global repercussions of a system lacking barriers between public office and private power. Prins leaves us with an ominous choice: either we break the alliances of the power elite, or they will break us.

©2014 Nomi Prins (P)2014 Tantor

A history buff's review of banking in politics

Whether you love politics (or not) and whether you love banking (or not) don't you want to know how bankers have influenced Presidents (and history?

IThis book answers that question.
In an era when politics is broken, this gives part of the reason why.

Bankers: lacking follow up action

The book gave the reader history, but did not follow though with policy reforms to correct the problems! Current proposed reforms are not listed, nor any by the author!

Very Informative!

I like this informative documentary about the through lines of our banking system and the President!

All the Presidents Bankers By Nomi Prins |

Outstanding Manuscript Highly Recommended for Anyone Who Has An Affinity for Economic Intelligence! Nomi Prins Hit A Grand Slam with this One Here!

Great topic!

Easily understandable. Interesting topic. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Actually makes me want to study finance.

All wars are bankers wars

Very long book chronicling the relationship of elite bankers and banking institutions with presidents over the past 100 or so years in the United States, up through Obama. As with any book delving into a mostly singular topic, the information is overwhelming. There are so many bankers discussed and highlighted that it is really difficult to remember names or details. Suffice it to say, Prins goes pretty soft on them.

Prins' general theme seems to be that bankers were more altruistic in the past, and have now degenerated into creatures that no longer have any allegiance to their countrymen. I would contend that elite bankers have historically been repulsive scumbags, and their principal aim was to fool Americans into driving themselves further into slavery and debt. See the Rothschild emissary JP Morgan. To this end, the Federal Reserve was created, and wars were funded.

Interestingly enough, Prins tries to show the different relationships various presidents had with banking elites. She is a thorough apologist for FDR, and somehow sees him as a quality leader. Also, she seems to want to praise LBJ, falsely claiming his War on Poverty was a success. And some of her history is screwy. Like when talking about WW2, she claims in 1941 the world was horrified by Nazi atrocities. Sorry sweetheart, but that particular hoax was going to have to wait until some years later.

Curiously, Prins obsesses on "deregulation", though how someone can look at incestuous relationships wherein legislation is created or repealed to please bankers, and screw ordinary people, as any sort of "deregulation" is beyond me. Bankers push legislation, or its repeal, to enhance their power. The government does their bidding. This is not "deregulation". This is a cartel. When bankers run your country, and control your assets and leaders, there is no free market. Central banking is a cartel, and these vultures work together to dominate and abuse ordinary citizens.

All in all, a very long book, and often quite boring. If you want a really great book on banking, I'd recommend "The Creature from Jekyll Island". Prins' book is chocked full of details, but in the end the attempt is paint the bankers as ambitious men who seek to use government and power to achieve their objectives, but in a decent way. "Jekyll Island" will show you that instead, this is a criminal syndicate which does not have your best interests at heart.

Should Be Required Reading for High School Student

The author has obviously done the research to document incredible fraud and pilfering of the citizens of this country by bankers. The only way to stop this is to educate our voters to understand the horrendous policy decisions by our elected leaders. Every high school student should be required to read this book. If the informed media reporters would also take on these bankers, we could start to change the abuse and hold politicians more accountable. Thank you Nomi for the exceptional literary work!

Very Interesting BUT

What did you love best about All the Presidents' Bankers?

love?

What did you like best about this story?

wide coverage

What about Marguerite Gavin’s performance did you like?

voice

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

no

Any additional comments?

Everything she said was true and interesting but didn’t always communicate the truth.

She wasn’t crazy about Ike so the statement he made of using nuclear weapons to end the Korean War were not in context. It was said after both sides did not want peace talks. So he told China show up or I use the bomb and he told S. Korea show up or I shut off your oil.

In relation to the Suez war she said England’s economy caused her to leave but fail to mention it was after Ike said the US would not support the Pound Sterling on currency markets.

So she missed on Ike’s motivation just because he was very pro business,

Throughout the book her use of adjectives was somewhat telling. I could not figure out if she was a Libertarian or a Communist.

Very Informative

The book is well researched it's revelations long overdue. Unfortunately it's potential impact on the reader is reduced by the inappropriate tone of the narrator. Gavin's cheery American pie tone would be better suited to a Disney movie.

You better like history about the elite and rich

Shew! I made it through. Good God I thought I would collapse from listening to these guys telling their own stories via the documented notes and diaries Nomi used. She does a thorough job but it took a while to make it through 100 years of obscene banksterism and collusion between the government and banks. If you don't know this stuff then you need to hear this. If you're like me and know the topic well it's a bit trying to hear but still has good parts.
In the end, prepare yourself for a major collapse of the economic system as we know it. Thank you to big to fail.