A new book by Robert Eugene Jordan

The Call Is Coming From Inside the [People’s] House

How America Was Sold, and Who Bought It

The phone is ringing. It has been ringing for a hundred years. And the call is not coming from overseas.

Available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback and hardcover. Free to read with Kindle Unlimited.

About the book

A century of decisions, made at home

This book traces a century of decisions made by Americans, funded by Americans, and normalized by American institutions — from Edward Bernays’s “invisible government” to Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex, from the Pentagon Papers to the repeal of Glass-Steagall, and from Vietnam to a $40 trillion national debt.

Inside, you’ll discover

How the “engineering of consent” turned citizens into an audience, and then into a product.

Why the same leaders who called nations enemies later sat down to state dinners with them.

What one family’s folded flag reveals about who profits from war.

How monuments, ballrooms and renamed buildings tell the story the House wants told.

Plus: a timeline of the calls, 1917–2026.

Gary S. Jordan, 1967

One family’s folded flag

Robert was eight years old when the news came to the door: his oldest brother, Gary, had been killed by a sniper in Vietnam. The country that sent Gary told a story about why. It took Robert decades to stop believing that story.

This book is what he found when he did.

“This is not a book about one president. It is about the house he walked into, and who prepared the room.”

Learn to recognize the voice on the line

Written by a citizen and a witness, not a pundit, it asks the questions we were trained not to ask.