Ferdinand Lundberg

Ferdinand Lundberg (1905-1995) was a 20th century economist and journalist who studied the history of American wealth and power.

"Ferdinand Edgar Lundberg was born in Chicago and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Columbia University. He worked as a journalist for The Chicago Daily News, United Press International and, from 1927 to 1934, The New York Herald Tribune.

"He was an editor for the Twentieth Century Fund. He also lectured as an adjunct professor of social philosophy at New York University from 1952 to 1968.

"He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Young Lundberg."

Books

• America's Sixty Families. New York: Vanguard Press, 1937.
• The Treason of the People. 1954.
• The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the Power of Money Today. New York: Lyle Stuart, 1968.
• The Rockefeller Syndrome. Secaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1968.
• Cracks in the constitution: Carol Publishing Group, 1982.
• The Myth of Democracy. 1989.
• The Natural Depravity of Mankind: Barricade Books, 1994.