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Cronies : oil, the Bushes, and the rise of Texas, America's superstate / Robert Bryce.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryce, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture.
- Business and politics.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects.
- Texas--Politics and government--1951-.
- Texas.
- Politics and government.
- Texas--Biography.
- Bush family.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--Texas.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Business and politics--Texas.
- Political culture--Texas.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--United States.
- United States.
- Business and politics--United States.
- Political culture--United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 327 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2004]
- Summary:
- Renowned investigative reporter Bryce illuminates how Texas turned its vast energy resources into political power, and how a small group of Texas corporations, lawyers and politicians use that power to protect and defend their own economic interests.
- Contents:
- 1 From Mina al-Bakr to Houston 1
- 2 From Kilgore to Baghdad 24
- 3 The Supercapitalists 37
- 4 Depleting the Federal Treasury 45
- 5 1948: Lawyers, Airplanes, and Money-Part I 51
- 6 Brown & Root Cleans Up 69
- 7 Bush and Baker Join Forces 79
- 8 Bleeding Oil 90
- 9 Texas CREEPs for Nixon 96
- 10 Brown & Root Goes to Vietnam 105
- 11 All the Shah's Texans 111
- 12 Brown & Root and Saddam 124
- 13 "America's Superstate" 131
- 14 10000 Memorial and the "Texas Strategy" 137
- 15 "It's Not About Oil!"-Part I 157
- 16 A Pit Bull on the Pant Leg of Cronyville 168
- 17 Oil for W (and W for Oil) 181
- 18 Halliburton Hires a Crony 186
- 19 Baker Cashes In 196
- 20 2000: Lawyers, Airplanes, and Money-Part II 206
- 21 The President from Baker Botts...and Halliburton, and Exxon Mobil 217
- 22 Dreaming War 228
- 23 "It's Not About Oil!"-Part II 236
- 24 Minister of Nondisclosure 244
- 25 A Black-Tie Affair 250
- 26 The United States of Texas 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1586481886
- 9781586481889
- OCLC:
- 53992869
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