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HALLIBURTON

AGENDA

The Politics of Oil and Money

DAN BRIODY

JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.

THE

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Briody, Dan.

The Halliburton agenda : the politics of oil and money / Dan Briody.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 0 - 471-63860 -9 (cloth)

1. Halliburton Company—History. 2. Brown & Root, Inc.—History. I.

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2004

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

thusiasm, diligence, and attention to detail. Also, thanks to

my editor Jeanne Glasser and agent Daniel Greenberg of Levine

Greenberg.

Thanks to the many people who agreed to be interviewed

for this book, and the journalists and writers who have fol-

lowed the Halliburton story over the years, including Dan

Baum, Pratap Chatterjee, Barry Yeoman, and Peter Singer.

Thanks to the Rice University Woodson Research Center; the

Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; the Burnham Li-

brary of Bridgewater, Connecticut; The Gunn Memorial

Library of Washington, Connecticut; the Ruth A. Haas Li-

brary of the University of Western Connecticut in Danbury,

Connecticut; and the New York City Library.

And finally, thanks to my family, my wife Michelle, and my

son Sam.

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M any thanks to my research assistant Sarah Fallon for her en-

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