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Cronies : oil, the Bushes, and the rise of Texas, America's superstate / Robert Bryce.
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- ISBN: 1586481886 (hc) :
- Physical Description: xvii, 327 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, c2004.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index. |
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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
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Author's Note | p. xv | |
| 1 | From Mina al-Bakr to Houston | p. 1 |
| 2 | From Kilgore to Baghdad | p. 24 |
| 3 | The Supercapitalists | p. 37 |
| 4 | Depleting the Federal Treasury | p. 45 |
| 5 | 1948: Lawyers, Airplanes, and Money-Part I | p. 51 |
| 6 | Brown & Root Cleans Up | p. 69 |
| 7 | Bush and Baker Join Forces | p. 79 |
| 8 | Bleeding Oil | p. 90 |
| 9 | Texas CREEPs for Nixon | p. 96 |
| 10 | Brown & Root Goes to Vietnam | p. 105 |
| 11 | All the Shah's Texans | p. 111 |
| 12 | Brown & Root and Saddam | p. 124 |
| 13 | "America's Superstate" | p. 131 |
| 14 | 10000 Memorial and the "Texas Strategy" | p. 137 |
| 15 | "It's Not About Oil!"-Part I | p. 157 |
| 16 | A Pit Bull on the Pant Leg of Cronyville | p. 168 |
| 17 | Oil for W (and W for Oil) | p. 181 |
| 18 | Halliburton Hires a Crony | p. 186 |
| 19 | Baker Cashes In | p. 196 |
| 20 | 2000: Lawyers, Airplanes, and Money-Part II | p. 206 |
| 21 | The President from Baker Botts...and Halliburton, and Exxon Mobil | p. 217 |
| 22 | Dreaming War | p. 228 |
| 23 | "It's Not About Oil!"-Part II | p. 236 |
| 24 | Minister of Nondisclosure | p. 244 |
| 25 | A Black-Tie Affair | p. 250 |
| 26 | The United States of Texas | p. 259 |
| Notes | p. 275 | |
| Bibliography | p. 291 | |
| Appendix | p. 295 | |
| Index | p. 305 |
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