i found this exploration at the link just below where i find lots of good stuff daily. the first book spoken of is the power elite which i read in senior high school sociology back in the days when there was still a bit of education imagined in 'our' school system. the link takes you to a long and accurate depiction of the reality here in the empire where the tv insists the elections are real and the rest of the crap they provide each evening are equally supposed to be real. they aren't and trump will not build his wall because there are deeper voices at work that you'll never hear;


https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/

The 7 “Blind” men and the US Elephant

The famous Indian story of the Blind Men and the Elephant is a metaphor highlighting that while one’s subjective experience can be true, it can also be limited by its failure to account for other truths or a totality of truth. A similar metaphor can be used to try to explain the hidden forces guiding the US Government

From 1975 to 1976 the Church Committee in the Senate and the Pike Committee in the House attempted unsuccessfully to curtail the power of US intelligence agencies. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in particular, was investigated to see if it was a “rogue elephant” or under strict control of the President and the executive branch. However, besides some damning revelations outlined in the “whitewashed” report and some minor oversight changes, the “rogue elephant” was allowed to roam free.

Contemporary main-stream pundits now openly describe these hidden forces as a “shadow government,” a “corporatocracy” or a “deep state” controlling American politics. None however can do justice to what truly is an amorphous, complex and intricate web of overlapping entities. All who have tried to define who really governs America have essentially behaved as “blind” men.

The Sociologist

The first “blind” man was the Sociologist Professor C. Wright Mills. His book, The Power Elite, which was published in 1956, was the first full-scale study of the structure and distribution of power in the United States...........http://www.unz.com/article/political-sciences-theory-of-everything/