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Blowout : corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on Earth

Title

Blowout : corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on Earth / Rachel Maddow.

Author

Maddow, Rachel

Publication

New York : Crown, [2019]
©2019

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Description

xxi, 406 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe--from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea--exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia's rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the United States, and the West's most important alliances. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, but ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson emerge as two of the past century's most consequential corporate villains. The oil-and-gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, 'like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can't really blame the lion. It's in her nature.' [This book] is a call to contain the lion: to stop subsidizing the wealthiest businesses on earth, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of the world's most destructive industry and its enablers. The stakes have never been higher. As Maddow writes, 'Democracy either wins this one or disappears.'"--

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index.

Contents

Introduction: In a surrealist landscape -- Splendor and fragrance -- The genie -- Stolen goods -- Charlie Hustle -- Thunder up! -- Rex shrugged -- A risk management problem -- Poster boy -- Practical realities -- Who does that? -- The other 1 percent -- Ultrahazardous activity -- A significant strategic step -- Trust -- The handsome hero -- This ain't no disco -- Such a man is born once every few decades -- Putin zassal -- All hail the mercenaries -- His idea of America -- Because they could -- "We greatly value our relationship" -- Pobeda! -- "Yeah that was crazy" -- Active appreciation -- It all ties back -- "All they have is this" -- "Constituency trumps everything" -- Containment.

Call Number

JFE 20-3592

ISBN

9780525575474
0525575472
9780525575498 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019026915
40029483720

OCLC

1108782603

Author

Maddow, Rachel, author. Author

Title

Blowout : corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on Earth / Rachel Maddow.

Publisher

New York : Crown, [2019]

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Gender group: Women

Nationality/regional group: New Yorkers (New York State)

Nationality/regional group: Bay Staters

Occupational/field of activity group: Television journalists

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index.

Local Note

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM.

Other Form:

Online version: Maddow, Rachel, Blowout New York : Crown, [2019] 9780525575498 (DLC) 2019026916

Other Standard Identifier

40029483720

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3592

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