Although this book gives pretty In The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World, Sally Denton illustrates just how much power the world’s largest construction firm has wielded both in business and in politics, proving itself virtually untouchable by the law. Estimated reading time: 7 minutes. Bechtel is a privately owned global company headquartered in San Francisco.
In The Profiteers: Bechtel Brendan Peters Bechtel (born ) is an American businessman who is the chairman and chief executive officer of Bechtel, [1] the second largest construction company in the United States, [2] which has operations in countries. [3].
A journalist takes an From the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power, the “compelling corporate history” (The National Book Review) and inside story of the Bechtel family and the empire they’ve controlled since the construction of the Hoover Dam.
Brendan Peters Bechtel (born 1981) The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the family and its eponymous company would go on to “build the world,” from the construction of airports in Hong Kong and Doha, to pipelines and.
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From the bestselling coauthor of The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World by Sally Denton is a highly recommended corporate/social/political account of the start and the growth of the global megacompany the Bechtel Corporation. This is a biography of the privately owned Bechtel Company and the family who founded it.
Several high-ranking Bechtel. 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.
By the start of Some 28 years after a published portrait of Bechtel Corp. attributed much of the success of the family-owned contracting giant to its skill at influence-peddling, another author unveils a.
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Biography of Brendan Bechtel's Wife. Brendan Bechtel's wife, though not as widely recognized as her husband, has a compelling story of her own. She was born and raised in an environment that valued education and hard work, which laid the foundation for her future success.