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Summary: A well written book
Review: the Book has been excellently written. the book reveals in a very lucid language what goes in the board room decision making. a lot of details about the working of the Carlyle Group is revealed in this book. most shocking is the business relationship of this group with Laden family. Undoubtedly a good and gripping reading.
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Summary: Useful recent history
Review: "The Iron Triangle" is a piece of investigative journalism about the Carlyle Group. It isn't a business book, which should be obvious (though it wasn't to some reviewers). It isn't great literature, and it isn't conspiracy theory either, though it is hard to talk about the Carlyle Group without sounding a bit like a conspiracy theorist. (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you). Those who were expecting something else are going to be disappointed, but if you want to know some more about the history of the Carlyle Group and its brand of access capitalism, it is definitely worth a quick read. It's not a weighty tome. If it doesn't make the hairs on your neck stand up at least a couple of times, you're not paying close enough attention! Except for a chapter in Unger's "House of Bush, House of Saud", I don't know of anywhere else you're going to find out much else about this influential and frankly scary company. Admittedly, Briody's writing style and tendency to come to extreme conclusions can wear a bit thin, but even with a skeptical attitude on the part of the reader, some knowledge is bound to be gained by reading this. Don't expect Shakespeare or a b-school case study and you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: have i been sleeping?
Review: after doing some research to better familiarize myself with the candidates running for president, i came across a lot of references to the carlyle group. i go to walden books and purchase "the iron triangle" and feel like i have been sleeping for the past 15 years, as the ret of the country, after reading about the intricate relationships between some of the most powerful people on the global scene and my future.
i'm not one for conspiracy theories or paranoia-influence accusations, but the writing is in black and white and regardless of the agendas of the carlyle group, i must say the unethical behavior has me questioning the future of not only this country, but the entire world as we know it. emminent armegeddon? no. it's not that serious. but the security and freedom we enjoy as americans could be at jeopardy and the sad truth is we are encouraging and cheering it on.
those who are unsure about purchasing this book are unsure if they want to know the truth about their future. this book does not give a forecast of our future but shows how the future is being shaped by a handful of people whose primary priority is money, and i don't mean enough to purchase an extra lexus or two. the amount of money we're talking about, like the tons of money being made even as we speak after 9/11, is insane and borderline obscene.
i am disgusted with behavior of the carlyle group and at the same time, i am in awe of their cunning and ingenious ways of pilfering our futures for their single-minded agenda of becoming richer than the definition of rich.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Book is written very well, readable like a novel. Details the threat of privatizing the military and allowing companies to dictate the direction of our military and government. Plainly a must read in these times of our military personnel being 'stretched thin' all over the world.
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Summary: Bush and Bin Laden's good friends?
Review: Say it aint so! But of course it is!
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Summary: Captains and the Kings
Review: Taylor Caldwell described this kind of thing fictionally in her novel, Captains and the Kings, but her story deals with Gilded Era robber barons whose machinations, though plenty effective in their time, seem juvenile when compared to what is going on at Carlyle today.
Those of us who cling to a belief in America as our faith suffer most, I believe, from the documentation of this level of corruption in our midst. Those who are not politically active, or who will not see the evidence before their eyes, might simply state that Washington is corrupt, always has been, and there's nothing we can do about it. Well, all of these presumptions are untrue: when this level of corruption arose within the Grant, Garfield, and Nixon administrations, action was taken to correct the problem. Of course, the first two events occurred prior to the 17th Amendment, the beginning of our demise. When Theodore Roosevelt came along he socked it to these kinds of guys, but good, and bought us 50 or 60 years of relatively effective government.
Dan Briody has written a well-researched, well-documented account of incalculable greed and corruption run amok. In an earlier time, the publication of a book like this would have set off a maelstrom of investigations and indictments. Why is it that our current administration and the Carlyle Group feel immune from censure or prosecution? Repeat after me:
Read this book
Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine
Enforce Sherman Anti-trust
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Summary: Useful recent history
Review: This book is not written in the best english and doesn't realy take you inside the Carlyle Group. It does, however, give an interesting look at how one can make money in reglemented industries when he has an influence on those who makes the reglementations.
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Summary: Insightful!
Review: 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.
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Summary: I Wrot And Imprtint Boock!
Review: While I'm not as strong as Carri from New Jersey, and therefore couldn't tear this 210 page book in half, I was just as disgusted by it's shoddy presentation. I don't understand how any real publisher could allow a book with so many spelling, punctuation and grammer errors to leave the presses.Beyond that, Mr. Briody's continuing search for conspiracies under every rock is wearing thin. The relationship between Dick Cheney and Halliburton stinks to high heaven, but all the hand-wringin about Carlyle, Skull & Bones, etc., is pretty far-fetched.
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