Cronies

oil, the Bushes, and the rise of Texas, America's superstate

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Cronies

oil, the Bushes, and the rise of Texas, America's superstate

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Looks at how the energy resources in Texas have influenced politicians and advanced economic interests of the oil industry.

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PublicAffairs
Language
English
Pages
327

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Cronies: Oil, The Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate
July 5, 2005, PublicAffairs
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Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate
May 25, 2004, PublicAffairs
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Table of Contents

From Mina al-Bakr to Houston
From Kilgore to Baghdad
The Supercapitalists
Depleting the Federal Treasury
1948: Lawyers, Airplanes, and Money-Part I
Brown & Root Cleans Up
Bush and Baker Join Forces
Bleeding Oil
Texas CREEPs for Nixon
Brown & Root Goes to Vietnam
All the Shah's Texans
Brown & Root and Saddam
"America's Superstate"
10000 Memorial and the "Texas Strategy"
"It's Not About Oil!"-Part I
A Pit Bull on the Pant Leg of Cronyville
Oil for W (and W for Oil)
Halliburton Hires a Crony
Baker Cashes In
2000: Lawyers, Airplanes, and Money-Part II
The President from Baker Botts ... and Halliburton, and Exxon Mobil
Dreaming War
"It's Not About Oil!"-Part II
Minister of Nondisclosure
A Black-Tie Affair
The United States of Texas

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-293) and index.

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New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
976.4/063
Library of Congress
F391.2 .B795 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 327 p. :
Number of pages
327

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3694218M
Internet Archive
croniesoilbushes00bryc
ISBN 10
1586481886
LCCN
2003070694
OCLC/WorldCat
53992869
Library Thing
598447
Goodreads
1182638

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