| CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN John Perkins San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004 |
Rating: 3.5 Fair |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-57675-301-9 | ||||
| ISBN 1-57675-301-8 | 250pp. | HC/BWI | $24.95 | |
| 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 Résumé | 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 |
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