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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man » (Reprint)

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Authors: John Perkins
ISBN-13: 9780452287082, ISBN-10: 0452287081
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: Reprint

Author Biography: John Perkins

John Perkins is the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. He is a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, two nonprofit organizations dedicated to creating a stable, sustainable, and peaceful world.

Book Synopsis

Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.

Rocky Mountain News

Perkins is both alarming and entertaining, writing with the cutting precision and wit of a hard-boiled novelist.

	Preface	ix
	Prologue	xvi
Part I	1963-1971
1	An Economic Hit Man Is Born	3
2	"In for Life"	12
3	Indonesia: Lessons for an EHM	20
4	Saving a Country from Communism	23
5	Selling My Soul	28
Part II	1971-1975
6	My Role as Inquisitor	37
7	Civilization on Trial	42
8	Jesus, Seen Differently	47
9	Opportunity of a Lifetime	52
10	Panama's President and Hero	58
11	Pirates in the Canal Zone	63
12	Soldiers and Prostitutes	67
13	Conversations with the General	71
14	Entering a New and Sinister Period in Economic History	76
15	The Saudi Arabian Money-laundering Affair	81
16	Pimping, and Financing Osama bin Laden	93
Part III	1975-1981
17	Panama Canal Negotiations and Graham Greene	101
18	Iran's King of Kings	108
19	Confessions of a Tortured Man	113
20	The Fall of a King	117
21	Colombia: Keystone of Latin America	120
22	American Republic versus Global Empire	124
23	The Deceptive Resume	131
24	Ecuador's President Battles Big Oil	141
25	I Quit	146
Part IV	1981-Present
26	Ecuador's Presidential Death	153
27	Panama: Another Presidential Death	158
28	My Energy Company, Enron, and George W. Bush	162
29	I Take a Bribe	167
30	The United States Invades Panama	173
31	An EHM Failure in Iraq	182
32	September 11 and its Aftermath for Me, Personally	189
33	Venezuela: Saved by Saddam	196
34	Ecuador Revisited	203
35	Piercing the Veneer	211
	Epilogue	221
	John Perkins Personal History	226
	Notes	230
	Index	240
	About the Author	248