Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story : the Most Secret Corporation and How it Engineered the Wor

by Laton McCartney

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“Riveting . . . exemplifies how business works by exploiting personal connections.”—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 world’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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0671474154
  • ISBN13 9780671474157
  • Publish Date 1 April 1988
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 November 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Simon & Schuster
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 12
  • Language English