Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story: The Most Secret

Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story: The Most Secret Corporation and How It Engineered the World

â€œRiveting . . . exemplifies how business works by exploiting personal connections.â€â€”Businessweek

The Bechtel Group is a private company that shuns the limelight, yet it is one of the prime movers-and-shakers in the global economic arena. Founded by self-made millionaire Warren A. Bechtel as a risk-taking construction and engineering firm, the multibillion-dollar, multinational conglomerate is responsible for constructing the Hoover Dam, laying the Alaskan oil pipeline, and building half of the worldâ€™s nuclear power plants, for starters.

But Bechtel did not complete these ambitious projects on its own; it did so with the help of such â€œfriendsâ€ as Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Dwight Eisenhower, and former employees George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger.

Bechtelâ€™s access to high-ranking government officials is unparalleled in the private sector. And with that access comes the temptation to accept favors and influence policy. Business journalist Laton McCartney combines painstaking research and powerful reporting to tell here, for the first time, the explosive inside story of what really goes on at the company that changed the face of the globe.

â€œMcCartney has made an important contribution to understanding a powerful U.S. corporation and American business history.â€â€”The Philadelphia Inquirer
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber facsimiles, portraits
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1989-04-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345360441

Country	USA
Brand	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	facsimiles, portraits
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	1989-04-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345360441

Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story: The Most Secret Corporation and How It Engineered the World

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