Thomas J. and Kathleen Schaeper
Herghahn Books, Oxford and New York, 1998
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Chatty, readable account of American Rhodes Scholars. Although full of interesting anecdotes about individuals, this makes no serious attempt at the second half of the subtitle. Despite listing the large numbers of Rhodies in the Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton administrations, the authors simply reject the various claims that there is or has been a Rhodes Scholars network within the American ruling elites. Carroll Quigley is mentioned once, as a tutor of Bill Clinton; and the Rhodes Scholar programme is not located within the wider ambitions of the Round Table network.
Dishonest or just incompetent? I can’t tell.