Blowout: corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on earth
(Book)
A dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry 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. Maddow 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." Blowout 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.
Maddow, R. (2019). Blowout: corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on earth. First Edition. New York, Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Maddow, Rachel. 2019. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry On Earth. New York, Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Maddow, Rachel, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry On Earth. New York, Crown, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Maddow, Rachel. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry On Earth. First Edition. New York, Crown, 2019.
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