The Sovereign State : The Secret History of ITT

‘How did such a company come about, and how had it so inexorably increased its scope? How can one man dominate a corporation and hold together an industrial empire making thousands of products across half the world? How can governments ever control such an organism which is, like a jellyfish, both everywhere and nowhere? And how does the multinational corporation, of which ITT is a convenient caricature, fit in with modern notions of politics and diplomacy?’ — from the book