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The book
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.
Robert Jordan 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 Jordan decades to stop believing that story. This book is what he found when he did.
The Call Is Coming From Inside the [People’s] House traces a century of decisions made by Americans, funded by Americans, and normalized by American institutions. It runs 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
Questions we were trained not to ask
- 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
- A timeline of the calls, 1917–2026
This is not a book about one president. It is about the house he walked into, and who prepared the room.
Written by a citizen and a witness, not a pundit, it asks the questions we were trained not to ask, and teaches you to recognize the voice on the line.
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Published October 14, 2026 · English · Read a free sample on Amazon