The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group
Author: Dan Briody
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ISBN: 0471281085
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (April, 2003)
Sales Rank: 6,772
Average Customer Rating: 3.58 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
An Excellent Investigative Treatise By Talented Author
Author Dan Briody skillfully portrays the intriguing growth of a dynamic multibillion dollar private equity company which has developed a very successful worldwide business led by many former politicians from high levels of our government. He has exhibited the talents of both a skillful writer and investigative reporter.For example,in this book on one page, the author delicately describes (on the morning of 9/11/01) the weather conditions,trucks honking, cabbies swerving, and deliverymen on frenetic sidewalks in Manhattan; and on the next page he describes an annual international investor conference held by the Carlyle Group the same morning at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C.,which was attended by Shafiq bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's estranged half-brother and former President George Bush Sr.
The investigative effort of the author in compiling this book must have been truly challenging.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Insightful!
This book is worth reading, given that the Carlyle Group employs important former politicians (such as the first President Bush) and deals with politically sensitive companies. This history of the mammoth private equity firm with its fingers in many government pies reminds you that the right relationships and the right schools can compensate for professional ineptitude. And, if a fraction of author Dan Briody's implications about it are true, democracy is in serious trouble. But is even a fraction true? This clumsy compilation leaves you wondering. More original reporting and less exaggeration and bias would have helped Briody prove his conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, he does not display the requisite expertise about finance, law, politics or the arms trade. Indeed, given the innuendoes he delivers in breathless, clichéd prose, you could ask if the book just might include a stretcher or two. It is a suggestive stage whisper from outside the political theater's back door. We say you'll find this novelistic report intriguing, if you take it with a grain of salt.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Read it before you vote
If you've ever wondered why a conservative like George W Bush enjoys spending so much money, this book will make it perfectly clear. Through his father's association with The Carlyle Group, our nation's 13th largest contractor, today's government spending turns into tommorow's future inheritance for the President of the United States.In this book, Dan Briody lays down the history of The Carlyle Group and its all-star lineup (Iran-Contra era big-shots like Bush Sr., James A. Baker, Frank Carlucci, et. al) from their first scammy tax deals to their watching the September 11 attacks with Osama Bin Laden's brother!
This need-to-know information must be seen by all before the November elections, so read the book and decide for yourself, then get the word out!
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