The Wall Street Trilogy: A History

Three upheavals. One financial engine. That is the story revealed in The Wall Street Trilogy: A History, where Antony C. Sutton follows the trail of bankers, corporations, and hidden capital across the bloodiest decades of the twentieth century. The Wall Street Trilogy belongs not to fiction but to archival records, committee reports, and corporate deals — evidence Sutton marshals to show how American financiers shaped revolutions abroad and power at home.

In “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution”, readers see how the Soviet state was never an isolated experiment. Sutton documents how American bankers and industrial titans rushed to cut deals with Lenin’s regime, securing contracts and concessions even as terror reigned. It is a revelation that shatters the illusion of capitalism versus communism — showing instead a pipeline of money and influence that bound them together.

“Wall Street and FDR” brings the story home. Far from a grassroots champion, Franklin Roosevelt’s rise carried the fingerprints of Wall Street insiders who stood to gain from a new centralization of power. Sutton demonstrates how the New Deal became a vehicle for elite dominance, cloaked in the language of reform but designed to preserve control in the hands of financiers. Readers will see the Depression and Roosevelt’s legacy in an entirely new light.

Then comes “Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler”. Here Sutton maps out the loans, credits, and partnerships that armed the Nazi war machine. He names the corporations — Standard Oil, ITT, and the banks of New York — and shows how profit flowed across borders long after the bombs began to fall. For anyone who believes war is fought for ideals, Sutton makes a searing case that it was also fought for balance sheets.

By binding these three works into one volume, Sutton gives readers a panoramic view of a disturbing continuity: the advance of corporate socialism, engineered through upheaval. His case rests not on speculation but on financial records, contracts, and government hearings. In a world where crises still serve as catalysts for centralization, The Wall Street Trilogy presses its point with renewed urgency. (2018, pb, 528pp)