Bill Clinton, Carroll Quigley, The British Empire

“Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” is a book written by former Georgetown University professor and mentor to Bill Clinton — Carroll Quigley. The book covers the period of roughly 1880 to 1963 focusing on the economic problems brought about by World War I and the impact it had on subsequent events. The book has attracted the attention of those interested in geopolitics due to Quigley's assertion that a secret society initially led by Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner and others had considerable influence over British and American foreign policy in the first half of the twentieth century. From 1909 to 1913, Milner organized the outer ring of this society as The Round Table groups. The book is written based on Quigley’s study of archived files at the Council on Foreign Relations.