Preface. Introduction. Part I. The Chief: Samuel Insull. Chapter 1. Building General Electric. Chapter 2. Dynamo at Chicago Edition: 1892-1907. Chapter 3. Expanding Horizons: 1907-1918. Chapter 4. Peak and Peril: 1919-1929. Chapter 5. Plummet and Ruin: 1930-38. Part II. The Boss: Jack Bowen. Chapter 6. Meadows to Murchison. Chapter 7. A Monumental Mistake. Chapter 8. Florida Gas Company. Chapter 9. Transco Energy Company. Part III. Houston Natural Gas Corporation. Chapter 10. The Prince of Bankruptcy: John Henry Kirby. Chapter 11. Robert Herring and Ray Fish. Chapter 12. Formation of Maturation. Chapter 13. Robert Herring and After. Epilogue Market Order, Political Challenges. Bibliography. Illustration Credits. Name Index. Subject Index.
ROBERT L. BRADLEY JR. , a 16-year Enron employee and Ken Lay confidant, is a noted free-market scholar and public-policy entrepreneur. The founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research, Bradley is the author of numerous books and essays on the history and political economy of energy. He is an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.; a visiting fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London; and an honorary senior research fellow at the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2002, he received the Julian Simon Memorial Award for his work on energy and sustainable development. Bradley lives in Houston and likes to spend time in the beautiful Texas Hill Country.
"Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; all levels of undergraduate students." ( Choice , 1 March 2012)
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