Dan Briody
Dan Briody is the author of the books The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money (2004) and The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group (2003). Born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, he and his family now live in Bridgewater.[1]
Career
Prior to writing about corporations and their political ties, Briody was a technology journalist, including working as an editor[2] and columnist[3] for InfoWorld. He later began writing for the magazine Red Herring, for whom he initially wrote about the Carlyle Group in 2001.[4]
Briody expanded his Red Herring Carlyle Group article, turning it into his first book in 2003. The Iron Triangle landed on several best-seller lists,[5] with The New York Times describing it as "one-stop shopping for anyone who wants a laundry list of accusations against Carlyle since its inception in 1987."[4]
The Iron Triangle put Briody in the media spotlight, commenting to audiences curious about the confluence of the military business and politics. Briody appeared in Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11, talking about how the Carlyle Group benefited from 9/11 and the Bush family's connections with the Carlyle Group and Saudi Arabia.[1] Briody has since appeared on a number of national broadcasts including The Today Show, Nightline, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and NPR's Fresh Air.
In 2004, Briody published The Halliburton Agenda, a detailed account of Halliburton, the oil services and logistics company formerly run by Dick Cheney. In particular, he covered its subsidiary KBR (formerly named Kellogg Brown & Root).
More recently, Briody writes freelance articles for a variety of magazines, including Martha Stewart Living, Golf Digest, BusinessWeek, MSN, and Inc. He is also the founder of a communications consultancy for Fortune 500 companies.
Books
- Briody, Dan (2004). The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-63860-5.
- —— (2003). The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-28108-5.
References
- 1 2 Lefferts, E.L. (July 1, 2004). "Beyond 'Fahrenheit'". Litchfield County Times. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ↑ Fost, Dan (May 6, 1999). "Nat Semi Exiting Microchip Business". San Francisco Chronicle. p. B-1. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ↑ Briody, Dan (November 30, 1999). "Opinion: Table for two, cell phone or noncell phone". CNN. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- 1 2 Cowan, Alison Leigh (April 13, 2003). "Weaving a Power Web on the Potomac". The New York Times. p. 35. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ↑ "The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List". BusinessWeek. June 30, 2003. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
External links
- Official website
- Works by or about Dan Briody in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Book excerpts:
- Briody, Dan (May 8, 2003). "Heady Times For Carlyle in the Wake of Chaos and Grief That Gripped a Nation". The Times. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- Briody, Dan (May 9, 2003). "The Blurred Boundary That Helped Carlyle to Reap Benefits". The Times. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- Briody, Dan (July 22, 2004). "Book extract: The Halliburton Agenda". The Guardian. Retrieved February 6, 2010.