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Ferdinand Lundberg was an American journalist known for his frequent and potent criticism of American financial and political institutions. His work has been credited as influences on Robert Caro, Ralph Nader and others. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. April 1905 – 1. March 1995
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America's 60 Families
America's 60 Families
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Famous Ferdinand Lundberg Quotes

“The United States, it is apparent even to the blind, is a nightmare of contradictions.”

Ferdinand Lundberg America's 60 Families

America's 60 Families, p. 5 (Vanguard Press, 1938)

“Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.”

Ferdinand Lundberg

quoted in Stan D. Ross' The Joke's On... Lawyers https://books.google.com/books?id=uNt90TeLOxgC&pg, p. 43 (Federation Press, 1996)

“Man has such a capacity for rationalization that when he finds himself affluent and able to spend as he pleases he is quick to justify his most indefensible expenditures on the ground that they give some people employment. There is probably no rich person who upon quaffing a glass of champagne does not experience a happy glow of pleasure at the thought of all the vintners, bottlers, freighters, and servants to whom his simple act has given livelihood.”

Ferdinand Lundberg America's 60 Families

America's 60 Families, p. 445 (Vanguard Press, 1938)

“Daycare is a system that guarantees, beyond doubt, a steady quota of neurotics for society…”

Ferdinand Lundberg

Modern Woman: The Lost Sex (Crosset & Dunlap, 1957)

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