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
ISBN-13: 9781586481889
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Biographies; Erdölindustrie; Petroleum industry and trade; Affaires et politique; Aspect politique; Business and politics; Einflussnahme; Culture politique; Politique et gouvernement; Industrie et commerce; Politik; Pétrole; Biography
Description: "No other state has a tighter hold on America's psyche, politics, and wallet than Texas. Two of the last three American presidents - and three of the last eight - have been Texans. Lyndon Johnson, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush all got the White House by exploiting a network of money and power that no other state can match. In this fascinating book, investigative journalist Robert Bryce explains how Texas' business has become America's business and how Texas' politics are now America's politics." "Through a narrative that moves from the days of the oil boom, through the rise and reign of LBJ, to the present, Cronies illuminates how Texas turned its vast energy resources into political power, and how a small group of Texas corporations, lawyers, and politicians have used that power to protect and defend their own economic interests."--BOOK JACKET.
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.