Cronies: Oil, The Bushes, And The Rise Of Texas, America's Superstate
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1586481886 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bush is the living embodiment of Texas' crony networks, and how those networks continue to play critical roles in the 21st century. Two of the last three American presidents—and three of the last eight—have been Texans. Through an absorbing narrative that moves from the days of the oil boom, through the rise and reign of LBJ, to today, Bryce profiles the Texans and the Texas corporations who have wielded—and continue to wield—great power in America's domestic and foreign policy, including the Bushes, James A. Distinguished by the same crack investigative skills and colorful storytelling that reviewers loved in Pipe Dreams, Cronies not only explains the astonishing rise of Texas; it offers a timely, provocative new way to look at American politics and our deadly entanglements in Iraq.. Baker III, Halliburton, Baker Botts, Ray Hunt, Bell Helicopter, and more. In Cronies, renowned investigative reporter Robert 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
He lives in Austin.. Robert Bryce's work has appeared in the The New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Austin Chronicle and Texas Observer. His first book, Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, was named one of the best books of 2002 by Publishers Weekly and several other newspapers and magazines
He then turns to his central story, how Texas-based business empires like Exxon Mobil, Hunt Oil, Halliburton, and Baker Botts, the firm of James Baker III, have heavily promoted the careers of favored politicians going back to Lyndon Johnson. foreign policy to cater to Arab dictators and the Texas firms that serve them. All rights reserved. He contends that the market-shaping power of Texas oil inspired the creation of OPEC, and that generations of politicians, led by the Bushes, have tailored U.S. From Publishers Weekly Journalist Bryce, whose previous book, Pipe Dreams, chronicled the rise and fall of Enron, now recounts how Texas rose over the past 60 years on a tide of oil to become the
N. pearson said Indispensible for understanding the present mess. Simply put, this book provides the missing perspective which explains why Texans such as Lyndon Johnson, Tom DeLay, and the Bushes have a sense of entitlement to do as they please with the world's petroleum reserves. Texas pioneered the methods for controling market price of petroleum by setting up a mechanism which brought order to the c. Who rules the USA I am a history buff and this is the most interesting book I have ever read! I was a Vietnam Helicopter Pilot, a Helicopter Instructor Pilot in Iran for Bell Helicopter International and I spent 12 years flying the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. So this book has a personal interest to me beyond the average reader. Through my decades of . Andrew S. Rogers said March of the Mercantilists. At first, I feared this book would be the "March of the Mercantilists" according to Andrew S. Rogers. At first, I feared this book would be the 200March of the Mercantilists Andrew S. Rogers At first, I feared this book would be the 2004 winner of the Michael Lind Prize for Progressive Texans Dissing Texas. But "Cronies" didn't turn out like Lind's comically tendentious "Made In Texas: George W. Bush And The Southern Takeover Of American Politics (New America Books)" at all. Instead, Robert Bryce has assembled a pile of puzzl. winner of the Michael Lind Prize for Progressive Texans Dissing Texas. But "Cronies" didn't turn out like Lind's comically tendentious "Made In Texas: George W. Bush And The Southern Takeover Of American Politics (New America Books)" at all. Instead, Robert Bryce has assembled a pile of puzzl. 00March of the Mercantilists Andrew S. Rogers At first, I feared this book would be the 2004 winner of the Michael Lind Prize for Progressive Texans Dissing Texas. But "Cronies" didn't turn out like Lind's comically tendentious "Made In Texas: George W. Bush And The Southern Takeover Of American Politics (New America Books)" at all. Instead, Robert Bryce has assembled a pile of puzzl. winner of the Michael Lind Prize for Progressive Texans Dissing Texas. But "Cronies" didn't turn out like Lind's comically tendentious "Made In Texas: George W. Bush And The Southern Takeover Of American Politics (New America Books)" at all. Instead, Robert Bryce has assembled a pile of puzzl