Gerard Colby is the author of Du Pont: Behind The Nylon Curtain (Prentice Hall, 1974), Du Pont Dynasty (Lyle Stuart, 1984), and with Charlotte Dennett of THY WILL BE DONE, The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil (HarperCollins, 2005). He was the lead contributor to Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (ed. Kristina Borjesson), winner of the National Press Club’s first Arthur Kruse Award for Press Criticism. He has taught international economics, political science and the history of Latin American political economy at various colleges, has lectured throughout the U.S. and Brazil, and has done investigative journalism for national and local news services for over 30 years. From 2004 to 2009 he served as President of the National Writers Union, Local 1981 of the Technical, Office and Professional Division of the United Auto Workers.
Below are the collected articles Colby has written for Toward Freedom.
Lessons of the Cold War: Cracks in the Empire
Lessons of the Cold War: The Corporate War on Labor, at Home and Abroad
The Liberal Dream of a Keynesian Recovery
Lessons for Obama: How FDR Fended Off The 1%’s Attacks Against His New Deal Reforms
Secrets of the 1%: FDR’s Attempt to Reform the 1%’s Wall Street
Introducing The 1% and Their Target: The Middle Class
