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The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group
by Dan Briody
Product Group: Book
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (2003-04)
ISBN: 0471281085
EAN: 9780471281085
UPC: 723812457304
Dewey Decimal #: 332.6
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 240 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: HISTORY-2
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Hardcover with dj from John Wiley & Sons (2003), this is - The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group by Dan Briody. Foreword by Christopher Byron. Clean and tight except for a three-letter acronym marked on inside front cover, and a little edge wear. Einsenhower warned, at the end of his presidency, of the dangers of the military-industrial complex. Taylor Caldwell wrote about it in an earlier, fictional reincarnation during the age of the robber barons, in The Captains and the King. Now read a true story of the post-9/11 machinations of military-industrial bed-partners. Scary stuff. « if ( document.getElementById ) { document.writeln('Show less'); }
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
"The Carlyle Group is a distressing example of the way Washington, DC works. The Iron Triangle gives you an insiders’ perspective on this ‘creature’ of the Beltway."
–Thomas Fitton, President, Judicial Watch, Inc. from The Iron Triangle: Dwight D. Eisenhower, upon leaving the office of president in 1961, warned future generations against the dangers of a "military-industrial complex," and the "grave implications" of the "conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry." The wisdom of these comments has clearly been lost in the forty years since Ike left office. And the first step towards turning things around is understanding how we got here. No single company can illustrate that progression better than the Carlyle Group, a business founded on a tax scheme in 1987 that has grown up to be what its own marketing literature once called "a vast interlocking global network." The company does business at the confluence of the war on terrorism and corporate responsibility. It is a world that few of us can even 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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Customer Reviews
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Easy to read; hard to stomach
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-03-04
I first learned of the Carlyle Group in January, 2002, through Judicial Watch. It is testimony to the power of the members of that group that the information in the book has not been made the subject of a major prime time documentary. It should be required reading for anyone old enough to vote in this nation. If you want to know who perpetrates crimes like those of this group, just follow the money trail... it has a certain smell... like that of death.
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All inuendo no depth
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-08-07
0 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
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.
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Smear Campaign?
Rating  (2)
Date: 2005-08-21
10 out of 34 customers found this reveiw helpful
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.
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Corrupting the American Dream
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-05-10
25 out of 29 customers found this reveiw helpful
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?
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watered down conspiracy theory rubbish for the masses
Rating (1)
Date: 2005-05-08
10 out of 48 customers found this reveiw helpful
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.
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