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

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ISBN13: 9780345360441
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“Riveting . . . exemplifies how business works by exploiting personal connections.”—Businessweek

The Bechtel Group is a private company that shuns the limelight, yet it is among the prime movers-and-shakers within the global economic arena. Founded by self-made millionaire Warren A. Bechtel as a risk-taking construction and engineering firm, the multibillion-dollar, multinational conglomerate is chargeable for constructing the Hoover Dam, laying the Alaskan oil pipeline, and building half of the world’s nuclear power plants, for starters.

But Bechtel didn’t complete these ambitious projects by itself; it did so with the assistance of such “friends” as Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Dwight Eisenhower, and former employees George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger.

Bechtel’s get entry to to high-ranking government officials is unparalleled within the private sector. And with that get entry to comes the temptation to accept favors and influence policy. Business journalist Laton McCartney combines painstaking research and powerful reporting to tell here, for the first time, the explosive inside story of what really goes on on the company that changed the face of the globe.

“McCartney has made the most important contribution to figuring out a powerful U.S. corporation and American business history.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
ISBN13: 9780345360441
Condition: New
Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

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