Cronies
Subtitle: oil, the Bushes, and the rise of Texas, America's superstate
By: Robert Bryce.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Bush family; Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Texas; Business and politics -- Texas; Political culture -- Texas; Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- United States; Business and politics -- United States; Political culture -- United States; Texas -- Politics and government -- 1951-; Texas -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Genres: Biography.
Description: Looks at how the energy resources in Texas have influenced politicians and advanced economic interests of the oil industry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: From Mina al-Bakr to Houston; title: From Kilgore to Baghdad; title: The Supercapitalists; title: Depleting the Federal Treasury; title: 1948: Lawyers, Airplanes, and Money-Part I; title: Brown & Root Cleans Up; title: Bush and Baker Join Forces; title: Bleeding Oil; title: Texas CREEPs for Nixon; title: Brown & Root Goes to Vietnam; title: All the Shah's Texans; title: Brown & Root and Saddam; title: "America's Superstate"; title: 10000 Memorial and the "Texas Strategy"; title: "It's Not About Oil!"-Part I; title: A Pit Bull on the Pant Leg of Cronyville; title: Oil for W (and W for Oil); title: Halliburton Hires a Crony; title: Baker Cashes In; title: 2000: Lawyers, Airplanes, and Money-Part II; title: The President from Baker Botts ... and Halliburton, and Exxon Mobil; title: Dreaming War; title: "It's Not About Oil!"-Part II; title: Minister of Nondisclosure; title: A Black-Tie Affair; title: The United States of Texas