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Bechtel and the men who built the world

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An edition of The profiteers (2016)

The profiteers

Bechtel and the men who built the world

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

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The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. 'Dad' Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the family and its eponymous company would go on to 'build the world,' from the construction of airports in Hong Kong and Doha, to pipelines and tunnels in Alaska and Europe, to mining and energy operations around the globe. Today Bechtel is one of the largest privately held corporations in the world, enriched and empowered by a long history of government contracts and the privatization of public works, made possible by an unprecedented revolving door between its San Francisco headquarters and Washington.

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Subjects
Case studies, Bechtel Group, Business ethics, Corporations, Engineering firms, Corrupt practices, Bechtel Infrastructure Corporation, History, New York Times reviewed, Engineering, Corporations, corrupt practices, Corporations, history, Businesspeople, biography
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Table of Contents

Part one. We were ambassadors with bulldozers, 1872-1972: Go west! ; Follow the water ; Hobo jungle ; That hellhole ; Wartime socialists ; Patriot capitalists ; The largest American colony ; Going nuclear ; McConey island ; Weaving spiders ; Covert corporate collaboration ; The energy-industrial complex
part two. The Bechtel cabinet 1973-1988: Bechtel's superstar ; Cap the knife ; The Arab boycott ; The Pacific republic ; The Bechtel babies ; The Reaganauts ; A world awash in plutonium ; It would be a terrible mess ; Ultimate insiders ; A witch's brew ; The territory of lies ; A tangled scheme
part three. Dividing the spoils, 1989-2008: A deal with the devil ; The giant land of Bechtel ; Some found the company arrogant ; Global reach with a local touch ; A license to make money ; More powerful than the US Army ; The hydra-headed American giant ; Profiting from destruction
part four. From muleskinner to sovereign state, 2009-2015: A convenient spy ; Privatize the apocalypse ; Nukes for profit ; The Buddhist and the bomb ; The four horsemen of the apocalypse ; The Captain Ahab of nuclear weapons ; A trial lawyer goes to battle ; The Exxon of space ; A nasty piece of work ; The kingdom of Bechtelistan.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-408) and index.

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Bechtel and the men who built the world

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Dewey Decimal Class
338.7/62, B
Library of Congress
TA217.B4 D46 2016, TA217.B4D46 2016

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Pagination
viii, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
436

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OL27202736M
Internet Archive
profiteersbechte0000dent
ISBN 10
1476706468
ISBN 13
9781476706467
LCCN
2015510596, 2017288395
OCLC/WorldCat
940587806

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