The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group

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The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group
Dan Briody
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A penetrating look at the company at the nexus of big business, government, and defense

The Carlyle Group is one of the largest private equity firms in the world with over $13 billion in funds. Carlyle's investments include everything from defense contractors to telecommunications and aerospace companies. But there is more to this company than meets the eye. Carlyle's executives include heavyweights from the worlds of business and politics, such as former secretary of defense and CIA deputy director Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III, former President George Bush, former UK Prime Minister John Major, and former chairman of the SEC Arthur Levitt. Osama Bin Laden's estranged family was personally invested in the group until recently. In The Iron Triangle, journalist Dan Briody examines a company at the nexus of big business, government, and defense that, according to some sources, epitomizes corporate cronyism, conflicts of interest, and war profiteering. This fascinating examination leads readers into a w orld that few can imagine-full of clandestine meetings, quid pro quo deals, bitter ironies, and pettyjealousies. And the cast of characters includes some of the most powerful men in the world. Strap in, because this ride could get a little bumpy.

Dan Briody (New York, NY) is an award-winning business journalist whose Red Herring article "Carlyle's Way" broke the story on the inner workings of the Carlyle Group. Briody has appeared on numerous radio and television programs covering the Carlyle Group and has become a primary source for other journalists covering this story. Briody's articles have appeared in Forbes, Red Herring, and the Industry Standard.

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All inuendo no depth.......2007-08-07

I purchased this book. Book is shallow with no depth. Dan Briody clearly does not know the Carlyle Group, its principals or anything else. What a waste of time and money.

Smear Campaign? .......2005-08-22

I'll be the first to admit that the Carlyle Group seems to "work" the system...perhaps even abuse it to profit from their "connections" to goverment. And yes, they've done a few thing most people would find to be inappropriate. However the author's case would have been much more compelling had he simply stated the facts and not editorialized so much. The result makes you feel like it's a crackpot conspiracy theory. His liberal use of adjectives and obvious melodrama to make us think something horribly sinister is afoot made me bitter toward journalists, rather than his intended target, the Carlyle Group. Typical of the news media today: he couldn't just report the facts...he had to color it with his political (or paranoid) biases.

Corrupting the American Dream.......2005-05-10

Do not buy into any negative spoilers attempting to downplay or destroy "The Iron Triangle." I used this book as background research for my college thesis and its contents made me feel ashamed to be American. If it was not for Dan Briody's reporting instinct and tenacity, every American would remain ignorant as to the inner sanctum of Carlyle and how it works its connections in D.C. and around the world. Could you imagine our so called "bastions of freedom"; CBS News, FOX News and ABC/Disney running a feature length investigative piece on Carlyle's history and its people? Unlikely, or even unthinkable. --So much for a nation of "freedom." In writing "The Iron Triangle," Dan Briody has done the nation a public service, and if you want to educate yourself about Carlyle, but can't spare the time to read an entire book, then I'll point out parts you should not miss: "Carlucci's Connections" Chapter 4, "An Arabian White Knight" Chapter 6, "Family Business" Chapter 11 and "9/11/01" Chapter 13. The letters reprinted in full in the appendix are actual Carlyle letters to the DOD and they should also not be missed. Democracy, what Democracy?

watered down conspiracy theory rubbish for the masses.......2005-05-08

This book gains no real traction beyond the dust cover's framing of the conspiracy theory around the Carlyle group. Facts stated in the first few chapters are often repeated later on in the book and you end up asking yourself, ''yeah so what?''. Not clear what the author's angle is, he doesn't appear to have any special information on the interworkings of Carlyle and remains just an outsider compiling information easily available from various sources. Ultimately the book fails to tell a cohesive story and instead results in a semblance of newspaper articles or magazine features with the author's views often repeated and reiterated throughout the book in a monotonous and droning voice with not the slightest bit of climax.
However, if you are rather simple minded and a non business oriented individual, you may find the book's lack of factual basis and meaning is quite just your speed.

The Trail of the Octopus.......2005-04-03

I picked up a copy of The Iron Triangle in my local bookstore, and having read the backcover, I knew I just had to purchase a copy.

Briody's book is first class investigative journalism which provides an in-depth profile of one of America's most secretive and politically influential companies; The Carlyle Group. Although the author makes it clear that his book was not welcomed by Carlyle, he has done a formidable job in showing just how far and wide the tentacles of this octopus have spread over the last decade. Written almost like a thriller, The Iron Triangle lets you see the inner workings of this "political powerhouse" and how they use their unique "political access" to the White House and Pentagon while investing thier private assets of over $13 billion in areas as diverse as Health Care, Homeland Security and Defense. At the very least, this book makes you question the notion =and acceptablity= of 'political access' to today's policy makers by yesterday's politicians furthering their own financial gains.

From the backcover:

"The company does business at the confluence of the war on terrorism and corporate responsibility. It is a world that few of us can imagine, full of clandestine meetings, quid pro quo deals, bitter ironies, and petty jealousies. And the cast of characters includes some of the most famous and powerful men in the world. This is today's America. This is the Carlyle Group."

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Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to the loss of not only "a vast intellectual legacy born of intimacy" with nature, but also our very sanity. In The Diversity of Life, Wilson takes a sweeping view of our planet's natural richness, remarking on what on the surface seems a paradox: "almost all the species that ever lived are extinct, and yet more are alive today than at any time in the past." (Wilson's elegant explanation is a scientific education in itself.) This great variety of species is, of course, threatened by habitat destruction, global climate change, and a host of other forces, and Wilson revisits his oft-stated call for the protection of wilderness and undeveloped land, noting that "wilderness has virtue unto itself and needs no extraneous justification." We should, he continues, regard every species, "every scrap of biodiversity," as precious and irreplaceable, without attempting to quantify that regard with utilitarian measures such as "bio-economics." In short, Wilson offers with this book a simple, workable environmental ethic that extends the work of Aldo Leopold and other conservationists. A remarkably productive and influential scientist, Wilson is also a fine writer, and his survey of biodiversity makes for welcome and instructive reading. --Gregory McNamee

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"In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon. There in the perfect bowl of the night sky, untouched by light from any human source, a thunderstorm sends its premonitory signal and begins a slow journey to the observer, who thinks: the world is about to change." Watching from the edge of the Brazilian rain forest, witness to the sort of violence nature visits upon its creatures, Edward O. Wilson reflects on the crucible of evolution, and so begins his remarkable account of how the living world became diverse and how humans are destroying that diversity.

Wilson, internationally regarded as the dean of biodiversity studies, conducts us on a tour through time, traces the processes that create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and points out the cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution and diminished global diversity over the past 600 million years. The five enormous natural blows to the planet (such as meteorite strikes and climatic changes) required 10 to 100 million years of evolutionary repair. The sixth great spasm of extinction on earth--caused this time entirely by humans--may be the one that breaks the crucible of life. Wilson identifies this crisis in countless ecosystems around the globe: coral reefs, grasslands, rain forests, and other natural habitats. Drawing on a variety of examples such as the decline of bird populations in the United States, the extinction of many species of freshwater fish in Africa and Asia, and the rapid disappearance of flora and fauna as the rain forests are cut down, he poignantly describes the death throes of the living world's diversity--projected to decline as much as 20 percent by the year 2020.

All evidence marshaled here resonates through Wilson's tightly reasoned call for a spirit of stewardship over the world's biological wealth. He makes a plea for specific actions that will enhance rather than diminish not just diversity but the quality of life on earth. Cutting through the tangle of environmental issues that often obscure the real concern, Wilson maintains that the era of confrontation between forces for the preservation of nature and those for economic development is over; he convincingly drives home the point that both aims can, and must, be integrated. Unparalleled in its range and depth, Wilson's masterwork is essential reading for those who care about preserving the world biological variety and ensuring our planet's health.

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The Diversity of Life.......2007-01-10

This is an outstanding book. If you read this before you read Darwin's Origin of Species you'll get soooo much more from reading the latter. Anyway, the book encapsulates in easy to read prose much information that your mind can easily wrap itself around.

Second time round.......2007-01-04

When I received the book, it appeared that I had already an earlier edition in my bookcase. I did not regret my purchase, because the new version is updated/upgraded and E.O. Wilson is an excellent author and scientist on the subject of evolution.

The Diversity of Life.......2007-01-04

To begin with, I would like to say that this book was fairly good. The book started talking about early life on this planet, the various pioneering species of early Earth, etc. The book then goes into detail about the eolutionary paths of some of these pioneer species and of evolution in general, and of how the biodiversity on Earth has grown both in size and complexity. Towards the end, the book goes into the human influence on the environment; mostly the negative effects of human activity on theenvironment. I read this book for an AP Environmental Science class, and although this book is not the best, it had many colorful graphics and was fairly interesting and not dull like many of the books you are forced to read in school.

A Good Introduction to the Tapestry Of Life.......2006-08-27

This is a very eye-opening book which shows how important the diversity of life forms is to all of us. It demonstrates how even when we think we are conserving nature by setting aside
small areas to remain undeveloped, we are still dooming many species of life to extinction. With the loss of some species, others are threated and in the end, all of us are threatened.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a large view picture of nature in this world and how it is all interelated.

Welcome to the Jungle. Gets worse here every day........2006-07-02

There are some books where the superlative is simply insufficient. Edward Wilson writes with panache and vigor. He knows how to describe and keep the reader entertained. It was like I was reading fiction.

Wilson also writes with detail and accuracy. He knows his science. He knows the intricacy of ecology, and knows enough to know he can't know everything. This allows him to keep the mystery alive for the reader. I was continually astonished to see how he pulled in various aspects of Biology when telling a life story, and various sciences, to show how it All was inter-related. He would pull in constant relationships between different forms of life, and just when I thought he was done, he would go down a microscopic level. And then down another five levels. If is possible to be a savant within ecology, then this is it.

Wilson doesn't stop with good writing and excellent research. He tells us there's a problem. This is another The Jungle- only this time, there isn't much of a jungle left. Through out the book he makes clear that the planet is dying, and dying fast, and the causes of this death. Through the use of the ecological relationships, we see how an attack on one species can be an attack on thousands. Better authors are brave enough to tell us that not everything is okay.

The best authors tell us that there's a way to solve these problems. There are gloom and doom authors out there, teaching the world that everything will be destroyed, and the only thing to do now is get saved yourself. That's too little, and too easy, for Wilson. He doesn't make the situation worse than it is- his facts, studies, and research make it clear the situation is pretty bad. But it's not hopeless. He lays out how we can be changing things, and there's still time to change things. Not that it will be easy. But like an economic austerity program, sacrifices must be made, that we all might survive. To make it clear, this is a survivalist book. If you are hoping to see our species survive, then this book will assist in that. If you're okay with losing out on our currect ecological richness, with the disappearance of all the ecosystems you are familiar with, and the end of a species that can create a world wide web- but the survival of constant insect lifeforms- then there's no need to read any further.

(This review refers to the 1992 edition.)

Diversity and Differences in Organizations: An Agenda for Answers and Questions

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Diversity and Differences in Organizations: An Agenda for Answers and Questions

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Recent literature has emphasized the projected changes in organizational demographics and the fact that globalization also is changing the face of organizational landscapes. Taken together these trends are serving to increase the need to understand and appreciate cultural diversity in virtually all organizations. Many books already exist that attempt to address this topic. Each one attempts to provide a guide to dealing with a variety of racial, ethnic, or cultural backgrounds. The intent of Sims and Dennehy's book is to go beyond offering ideas or to serve simply as a guide to improve the management of diversity. Thus, a major goal of this book is to have its readers reflect on their personal diversity and difference experiences and to create a forum for answers and questions on the value of diversity and differences for all. The main thread that ties everything together in this book is the strategy of creating value through repeated emphasis on our need to look beyond valuing and managing diversity to the interdependency of a variety of individual variables that shape our lives. The book begins by offering a bridge-building model as a tool that colleges and universities can use to decrease the alienation experienced by minority students on predominantly white campuses and to increase the social consciousness of all institutional constituents. The next chapter suggests that diversity is essential to learning, and good conversation is a powerful way to learn from diversity. The book then introduces a model that seeks to place the issue of diversity management as one part of an overall development change process. The notion that the success of some organizations in enhancing diversity is dependent upon the vision and strength of management is emphasized in the next chapter, which, by taking a different perspective, presents the argument that current corporate infrastructures do not promote diversity. Unless a company builds new internal support systems that encourage diversity of thought and action, employees hired to "make the company more diverse" will merely be homogenized into the prevailing culture. In the following chapter the role of training in U.S. organizations is discussed as a major component in increasing the recognition, understanding, and appreciation of diversity and difference. The concept of "difference-based approach to advocacy" and its relation to issues of gender are introduced as cornerstones of creating work environments that are supportive of employees' needs to balance work and family. The next chapter provides data for analysis of the expatriate's learning experience and applies the learning from expatriate experiences to those issues faced by minorities in a domestic setting. A need to create new intellectual diversity that focuses on foreign language skills applicable to the needs of economic, scientific, and technological markets is emphasized in the next chapter. Next, a comparison is made of the decision-making processes and practices of Japanese and American managers at a Japanese company in the United States. The author's pioneering findings can be generalized to understand decision-making in different cultures and organizations. The role of diversity educator is then discussed and the author persuasively argues that active learner participation, self-disclosure, and a trusting supportive environment are prerequisites to understanding and appreciating diversity. The book concludes with a review of the important points discussed by the contributors to this book, offers questions in need of answers, and identifies future issues on diversity and differences.

Before Diversity: 103 Questions & Answers for Managers and Trainers

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Losing Strands in the Web of Life: Vertebrate Declines & the Conservation of Biological Diversity (Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Study Question Set)

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Losing Strands in the Web of Life: Vertebrate Declines & the Conservation of Biological Diversity (Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Study Question Set)
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The Politics of Diversity (Questions for Feminism)

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Questions of Diversity (Book & 3 1/2" Disk)

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On Granddaddy's Farm
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Granddaddy's Farm.......2001-01-17

While not growing up on a farm myself, I do live in the approximate area in which Thomas B. Allen's story, On Granddaddy's Farm, takes place. Allen has certainly captured the essence of the locales he mentions in the story. His words paint pictures and evoke the smells that one encounters on a farm. The characters bring to life all that a country family experiences during not only this time in history, but also in some aspects of today's fastly disappearing farm family. Granddaddy's insistance of the work ethic, Granny's always being there to watch over and provide for the children, the rhythm of the train's always dependable schedule all elicit the "protectiveness and dependence" of a time we all have enjoyed or longed to enjoy in our own lifetimes.

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Over the last several years, physicists interested in understanding the structure of matter at the fundamental partonic (quark and lepton) level have come to realize that an electron-ion collider can address many of the outstanding questions in hadronic physics. In Summer 2000, a new Long Range Planning Exercise was announced for nuclear physics in the United States, and the proponents of an electron-ion collider came together to make the scientific case for this machine. This workshop summarizes the physics case and machine design for a next generation facility to study the fundamental structure of hadrons.
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