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Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story: The Most Secret Corporation and How It Engineered the World

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Title: Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story: The Most Secret Corporation and How It Engineered the World
by Laton McCartney
ISBN: 0-345-36044-3
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pub. Date: May, 1989
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $19.00
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Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)

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Rating: 1
Summary: Yellow Journalism at its Worst
Comment: This book would make even William Randolf Hearst blush. McCartney uses innuendo, falsehood, and fabrication to create a highly skewed view of the well-known engineering construction company. While seemingly a "well-documented" work, he in fact uses "off the record" quotes and otherwise unattributed sources to paint a extremely unflattering picture of the company and its founders, owners and officers. Despite the apparent effort spent in researching his subject, he demonstrates a consistent ignorance of the industry he writes about including its practices and terminology. He casts a wide net of aspersions on the individuals who built the company by quoting unnamed sources and reiterating disproved allegations. He has a positive gift for making any legitimate business activity seem highly suspect, and alludes to "rumored" charges of impropriety without providing any documentation of such. The reader should view this work in the same manner as the depiction of an industry dinner in Washington D.C. recounted in the book's closing pages. The event described did in fact take place, but Mr. McCartney's insertion of Steven Bechtel Jr. into it is a complete fabrication.

Rating: 4
Summary: Engineered the World : And Made a Lot of Money At It Too.
Comment: An excellent book that provides an interesting insider's view into one of the largest engineering and construction firms of modern times. From the Hoover Dam to the Middle East to the United States Government, this book shows how the Bechtel Corporation did what it wanted to, when it wanted to, and used whom it wanted to as long as it made the few controlling members of it's management very rich. And all this was training for the government deals to come. This book offers a historical detailing of this company's ethical and social violations as well as the building of an empire. Read it.

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