Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate

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This fascinating book explains how Texas' business has become America's business & how Texas' politics are now America's politics. Discusses the days of the oil boom, through the rise & reign of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, to the current administration of George W. Bush, this book illuminates how Texas turned its vast energy resources into political power, & how a small group of Texas corporations, lawyers, & politicians have used that power to protect & defend their own economic interests. From Brown & Root's war profiteering in LBJ's Vietnam to Halliburton's insider deals in G. W. Bush's Iraq, here is a terrifying tale of incestuous relationships between the plundering class in Houston & Dallas & the governing class in Washington. Photos.

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  Cronies

  • 2022
  • - pages
  • Paperback
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  Cronies: How Texas Business Became American Policy-- and Brought Bush...

  • 2005-07-05
  • 352 pages
  • Paperback
  • PublicAffairs