Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Profiteers’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 11 March 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week, Sally Denton talks about “The Profiteers”; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Jack Viertel discusses “The Secret Life of the American Musical”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	Who is the powerful family behind the Hoover Dam?
0:05.6	Sally Denton joins us to talk about her new book, The Profitiers.
0:09.1	Well, it's actually five generations of a California family, the first real mega company
0:15.2	in the American West.
0:16.7	What makes a Broadway musical work?
0:18.7	Jack Fertel will tell us about the secret life of the American musical.
0:22.2	The show speaks to you in different ways depending on where you are on the spectrum of
0:26.4	life, and yet it seems to speak the truth all the time.
0:29.3	And it has a great, great score.
0:31.1	I mean, I could listen to that score every day all day.
0:33.4	Alexander Altair will give us an update from the literary world, and Greg Cole's has
0:37.1	bestseller news.
0:38.6	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:40.2	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:45.1	Sally Denton joins us from Las Vegas.
0:47.8	Her newest book is The Profitiers, Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World.
0:52.5	Sally, thank you for being here.
0:54.3	Thank you for having me.
0:55.3	So this is an investigative look into a privately-held company, started by the Bechtel family, but
1:03.0	Bechtel is not a household name.
1:05.1	Who is this family?
1:06.1	Well, it's actually five generations of a California family.
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