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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 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
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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Title: The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group by Dan Briody ISBN: 0471281085 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: PRIZE : THE EPIC QUEST FOR OIL, MONEY & POWER by Daniel Yergin ISBN: 0671799320 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Color of Oil : The History, the Money and the Politics of the World's Biggest Business by Michael Economides, Ronald Oligney, Armando Izquierdo, Micheal Economides ISBN: 0967724805 Publisher: Round Oak Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The New Iraq: Rebuilding the Country for Its People, the Middle East, and the World by Joseph Braude ISBN: 0465007880 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett, Jonathan Cobb ISBN: 039331085X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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