French Connections: Networks of Influence

Political partners and alumni groups, Masons and the Mafia, Jews and Protestants -- we are enmeshed in a network of networks, working for and against each other's interests. They explain the decisions, the nominations, the deals that take place. How much influence do they really have? This book enumerates the ways in which members of "old-boys' clubs" maneuver to help each other through.Political leaders, gang leaders, corporate chiefs, and smugglers -- they all form a very small world. From dinner clubs to juntas ... it's not only business deals that go on behind those doors!