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- Book Title
- Secret World of Oil
- Publication Name
- The Secret World of Oil
- Title
- The Secret World of Oil
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1781688672
- EAN
- 9781781688670
- ISBN
- 9781781688670
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, Political Science
- Topic
- Geopolitics, Industries / Natural Resource Extraction, Industries / Energy, Petroleum
- Release Date
- 05/05/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 7.7in
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 11.4 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Oil is the lifeblood of modern civilization, and the industry that supplies it has been the subject of intense interest and scrutiny, as well as countless books. And yet, almost no attention has been paid to little-known characters vital to the industry.secretive fixers and oil traders, lobbyists and PR agents, gangsters and dictators.allied with competing governments and multinational corporations. Virtually every stage in oil's production process, from discovery to consumption, is greased by secret connections, corruption, and violence, even if little of that is visible to the public. The energy industry, to cite just one measure, violates the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act more often than any other economic sector, even weapons. This book sets out to tell the story of this largely hidden world. Based on trips to New York, Houston, New Orleans, Paris, Geneva, and Phnom Penh, among other far-flung locales, The Secret World of Oil includes up-close portraits of Louisiana oilmen and their political handlers; an urbane, captivating London fixer; and an oil dictator's playboy son who had to choose among more than three dozen luxury vehicles before heading out to party in Los Angeles. Supported by funding from the prestigious Open Society Foundations, this is both an entertaining global travelogue and a major work of investigative reporting.
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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1781688672
ISBN-13
9781781688670
eBay Product ID (ePID)
203534978
Product Key Features
Book Title
Secret World of Oil
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Geopolitics, Industries / Natural Resource Extraction, Industries / Energy, Petroleum
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, Political Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Hd5960.5
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"Ken Silverstein is one of the best investigative journalists of his generation--or any generation. His latest book, The Secret World of Oil , is a masterpiece of revelation. With a deft combination of detail and color, Silverstein exposes the darkest shade of crude: the fixers and middlemen who arrange the deals that provide us with the oil we need to keep our cars running and our homes warm. As Silverstein shows, these deals enrich the kleptocrats of our world and make life worse, rather than better, for their unfortunate subjects. It is a shameful and captivating tale about a pipeline of corruption that we must fix." --PETER MAASS, author of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil "Much has been written about the oil industry, but Ken Silverstein provides an entirely new window into this vitally important universe. For the first time, we encounter the fixers, flacks, and traders behind the secretive deals that drive the industry and enrich its leading operators. After reading this book, you will never think about oil in the same way again." --MICHAEL KLARE, author of The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources "Ken Silverstein's sharp investigative reporting has again dragged a cast of shady operators into the public eye with his must-read book, The Secret World of Oil . Oil is the cause of so much pain in the world. As the fossil fuel industry tightens its grip on our warming planet, The Secret World of Oil names names, and exposes the brokers, lobbyists, and fixers who profit from the misery of millions and the accelerating pollution of the planet." --AMY GOODMAN, host and executive producer, Democracy Now! "Silverstein writes with keen reportorial objectivity but also understandable skepticism about...the frighteningly tyrannical hold that oil has on the free (and not-so-free) world. The book's revelations make Wall Street corruption seem tame by comparison."-- Kirkus Reviews Praise for Silverstein's The Radioactive Boy Scout : "An astounding story ... [Silverstein] has a novelist's eye for meaningful detail and a historian's touch for context."-- The San Diego Union-Tribune "Enthralling ... [The Radioactive Boy Scout] has the quirky pleasures of a Don DeLillo novel or an Errol Morris documentary ... An engaging portrait of a person whose life on America's fringe also says something about mainstream America."-- Minneapolis Star Tribune
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
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Dewey Decimal
338.2/7282
Dewey Edition
23
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