Author: Fred J. Cook

His Background

He was an investigative journalist.
His prime years of journaling were between the early 1950’s and late 1970’s.
He was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, and grew up in a house on Bay Avenue near the border with Bay Head.
He graduated from Rutgers University in 1932.
Started journalism career at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_J._Cook)

His first wife, Julia, died in 1974 and his second wife, Irene, died in 1992.
With Irene he had a son named Frederick P. Cook, a daughter Barbara Shibla; and 6 grandchildren.
As of 2003 he has written 45 books!
(http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/nyregion/fred-j-cook-92-the-author-of-45-books-many-exposes.html)

Book: The Warfare State (Macmillan: 1962)

“The pressures of post-World War II have created in America a new phenomenon, a power complex which may be aptly called the Warfare State. It is a conjunction of military-industrial power, against which President Eisenhower warned in his Farewell Address. Fed by ever increasing billions of dollars, the Warfare State rests upon two assumptions: that safety can be achieved only through power, that prosperity depends upon the constant pump-priming of the domestic economy through the expenditure of military billions. Both assumptions are false. Power in the nuclear age has become self-defeating and suicidal. Full employment and prosperity can no longer be guaranteed by military expenditures, for experience proves that vast sums spent for military hardware act in the long run only as a drug and a drag on the over-all econ omy. But both myths, aided by the lobbying of the military- industrial complex, persist in influencing American decisions and preventing them from being based on clear conceptions of reality.”
(http://ann.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/351/1/102)

The Problem attacked in the writing:

Cook believes the Cold War began, and still continues, because of a conspiracy of the American military-industrial complex. (http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-warfare-state--by-fred-j--cook-3671)