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 9780471638605. 
•    (2003). The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780471281085. 

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Lefferts, E.L. (July 1, 2004). "Beyond 'Fahrenheit'". Litchfield County Times. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2303&dept_id=478844&newsid=12178663. Retrieved February 7, 2010. 
2. ^ Fost, Dan (May 6, 1999). "Nat Semi Exiting Microchip Business". San Francisco Chronicle: p. B-1. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/05/06/BU12452.DTL. Retrieved February 7, 2010. 
3. ^ Briody, Dan (November 30, 1999). "Opinion: Table for two, cell phone or noncell phone". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/30/nocellzone.idg/index.html. Retrieved February 7, 2010. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Cowan, Alison Leigh (April 13, 2003). "Weaving a Power Web on the Potomac". The New York Times: p. 35. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/business/business-off-the-shelf-weaving-a-power-web-on-the-potomac.html. Retrieved February 7, 2010. 
5. ^ "The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List". BusinessWeek. June 30, 2003. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_26/b3839024_mz005.htm. 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. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article881598.ece. Retrieved February 6, 2010. 
  • Briody, Dan (May 9, 2003). "The Blurred Boundary That Helped Carlyle to Reap Benefits". The Times. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article883004.ece. Retrieved February 6, 2010. 
  • Briody, Dan (July 22, 2004). "Book extract: The Halliburton Agenda". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/jul/22/usa.politics. Retrieved February 6, 2010. 

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