The Man Who Sold Tomorrow: The True Story of Dr. Solomon Trone The Worldas Greatest & Most Successful & Perhaps Only Revolutionary Salesman: The True ... and Perhaps Only, Revolutionary Salesman - Softcover

Evans, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1634241908 ISBN 13: 9781634241908

Verlag: Trine Day, 2019

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Following Solomon Trone into the heart of the conspiracies of the last century, this book traces the story of a simple businessman, leading a sedate life in upstate New York, who was thrown into a Cold War nightmare filled with assassination, secret agents, revolution, and danger. Of particular interest to skeptics of the establishment who lived through the Cold War, this story of deep-seated corruption will also appeal to millennials interested in political action but cynical about the two-party ideologies passed down the generations. Referencing documentation that many people have died to keep secret, this book gives readers a compelling reason to question assumptions of anyone with staunch political beliefs.

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David Evans is an archivist and government records professional who has worked for the British Council, Oil Companies, and government institutions in Canada.

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The Man Who Sold Tomorrow

The True Story of Dr. Solomon Trone The World's Greatest & Most Successful & Perhaps Only Revolutionary Salesman

By David Evans

Trine Day LLC

Copyright © 2019 David Evans
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-63424-190-8

Contents

Cover, 
Tite Page, 
Copyright Page, 
Epigraph, 
Contents, 
Preface, 
Introduction, 
Looking for the Heart of the Revolution, 
The View from Hampstead Heath, 
Catching the Big Fish, 
Three Men in a Boat, 
The World of Tomorrow, 
The Errand Boy and the Emperor, 
The Making of Morgan, 
The News from Nowhere, 
For Love and Revolution, 
Russian Roulette, 
The Beautiful Loser, 
Get With The Plan, Comrades!, 
Betting Against the Future, 
The End of Reason, 
The View from Desolation Row, 
The Sickle Pays for the Hammer, 
The Show Must Go On, 
Fear in a Handful of Dust, 
The Blind Allie, 
Voyage of Discovery, 
Politics Gets Personal, 
Strange News Indeed, 
Hail to the Technate!, 
A Revolution of One's Own, 
Trone's America, 
New Deals and Old Friends, 
Let There Be Light, 
Discovering Trone, 
The Ironic Traveler, 
A Simple Matter of Perspective, 
A Point of View, 
Only Hope, 
Convergent Destinies, 
Seeds of Turmoil, a Harvest of Desires, 
Investigating Trone, Investigating the World, 
The Life of the Party, 
Finding Work in a Chinese Restaurant, 
India and the Plan, 
The Unplanned Promised Land, 
End Game, 
Another Future, 
Time to Forget, 
Passport to Retirement, 
Questions & Answers, 
Bibliography, 
Contents, 
Landmarks, 

CHAPTER 1

Looking for the Heart of the Revolution

The View from Hampstead Heath

Britain is not such an ugly place for an American such as Dr. Solomon Trone to go and die of old age. Instead of facing the electric chair like his friends the Rosenburgs he was forcibly retired. The place of his enforced retirement happened to be Hampstead. The exact place was right next to Hampstead Heath, in a tastefully decorated spacious flat, replete with original drawings by Kathy Kollwitz and Mayakovski hanging on the walls.

From the living room in this place one can look out onto the Heath and get an almost uninterrupted view looking down on most of London. If any of us were cast out of where we live now to such an exile in Hampstead, to live out the rest of our days surrounded by family and friends, it is doubtful any one of us would have much cause to complain. This is not how one expects America to treat those it suspects of Capital Treason. After all, Hampstead is long way from Guantanamo Bay.

Even in 1953 Hampstead England was hardly the torment of the damned; now of course it's one of the richest places on earth. Not far in the distance, on the other side of the Heath is the last resting place of Karl Marx. On this side is the last residence of a man who helped make the events possible that put Marx on a pedestal for almost a century. Foolish perhaps, a dreamer certainly, he was an engineer, a revolutionary and the best damn salesman General Electric ever had; here lived the spectacular and some would say romantic and passionate Dr. Solomon Trone.

In a long game of a cat and mouse, or, to be more accurate, spy versus spy, Trone had one opponent who hunted him off and on through four decades of his life. J. Edgar Hoover first became wise to Trone shortly after World War One, when as a young Justice Department employee he created a list on which Trone's name was included. It was not, however, until after World War Two that Hoover was presented with a dossier of Solomon Trone's industrious pursuits, to which he remarked with trembling enthusiasm, "This is an amazing story." Trone, always one step ahead, was more than aware by this point that Hoover was closing in on him.

J. Edgar Hoover when he had just got out of law school had begun a career with the Department of Justice by compiling a list of dangerous radicals. Like the list sung about in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta the Mikado, it was a "little list" of "society offenders" whom, if executed "would not be missed." And just like the list in the Mikado some have speculated, "it really does not matter who you put upon the list," because the real purpose of the list was primarily to calm the fears of the American public.

What the American public feared was both the real and imaginary threats from anarchists and others. If this meant taking the innocent with the guilty J. Edgar Hoover did not appear to mind. Officially the list was supposed to comprise those who were considered a danger to the state during the Red Scare that swept America at the end of the First World War and into the 1920s. Like the lists of suspected communists created during the McCarthyism of the 1950s, this earlier list contained a lot more than a collection of names of those assumed to be guilty of treason.

At this time of Red Scare hysteria, when bombs, set by self-proclaimed anarchists, were exploding Wall Street and rumours abounded of foreign agents invading America it was not a good time to be a known political radical. It was J. Edgar Hoover's job to make a list of all the radicals so they could be monitored, captured and then dealt with appropriately, especially as it turned out if they were Jews and Russians living in New York. These two groups were of particular interest to Hoover.

The Espionage List based upon the Espionage Act was broad enough to cast a very wide net including many who were neither dangerous nor politically radical. The Espionage List brought together a diverse set of people. It contained those who had wanted a German victory in the First World War, and pacifists who wanted to end the same war. It named also union activists who had no opinions about the war but whose motives were simply to build "One Big Union." The list even contained older ladies who started a "Knitting Cooperative" not realizing to do so was like declaring to J. Edgar Hoover that they were bomb throwing anarchists working directly for the Kaiser of Germany. Why? Because their organization contained the word "cooperative" which Hoover thought was a code word for anarchist.

Like every good drama, needing its cast of heroes and villains, not everyone on the Espionage List however was innocent. There were, of course the usual anarchist suspects who did advocate violent actions and who were still at large. These people were also prepared to take their war against the state and the rich to a higher level.

Solomon Trone, playing multiple roles, was not only on that list, he was also actively pursued in New York and the surrounding area by agents of the newly formed FBI who were determined to find him. His name had been given by several informants, who claimed that Trone was either a Bolshevik revolutionary or a Czarist agent, depending upon the political inclination of the informant.

To the left-wing socialist oriented Lieutenant Governor of New York, George Lunn, Trone was a dangerous agent of the Czar, while to others, such as a Russian exile devoted to the Czar Trone was in the pay of the Bolsheviks aiming to overthrow the United States government by force. To the 24-year-old Hoover, Trone well and truly deserved to be on the list, although he may not have known exactly why. The investigation of Trone that started in 1917 was left incomplete. As we shall see later Trone evaded the investigation in America until...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Trine Day
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1634241908
• ISBN 13: 9781634241908
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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