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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

Autor Steve Coll
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2013
From twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comesPrivate Empire, winner of the FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2012

The oil giant ExxonMobil makes more money annually than the GDP of most countries; has greater sway than US embassies abroad; and spends more on lobbying than any other corporation. Yet to outsiders it is a mystery. InPrivate Empire, award-winning reporter Steve Coll tells the truth about the world's most powerful and shadowy company.

From the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, via Moscow, the swamps of the Niger Delta and the halls of Congress, he reveals a story of dictators, oligarchs, civil war, blackmail, secrecy and ruthlessness. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and newly declassified documents, this is a chilling portrait of unchecked power.

Reviews:

'Magisterial ... a revealing history of our time'New York Review of Books

'Meticulous, multi-angled and valuable ... Coll's prose sweeps the earth like an Imax camera'Dwight Garner,The New York Times

'Jaw-dropping reading'Kirkus Reviews

'The definitive work on its subject ... at every stop there are vivid anecdotes, sharp insights and telling details'Ed Crooks,Financial Times

About the author:

Steve Coll is the author of the New York Times bestsellerThe Bin Ladens. He is president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a staff writer for The New Yorker. He won a Pulitzer prize for explanatory journalism while working at the Washingon Post. He is the author of six other books, including the bestsellerGhost Wars, which won him a second Pulitzer prize. He lives in Washington and New York.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780718194475
ISBN-10: 0718194470
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Steve Coll is the author of theNew York TimesbestsellerThe Bin Ladens. He is president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a staff writer forThe New Yorker. He won a Pulitzer prize for explanatory journalism while working at theWashingon Post.He is the author of six other books, including the bestsellerGhost Wars,which won him a second Pulitzer prize. He lives in Washington and New York.

Recenzii

Magisterial ... a revealing history of our time
Meticulously researched and elegantly written, it is likely to be the definitive work on its subject for many years to come. Steve Coll ... is honest about Exxon's strengths as well as its flaws, and presents both sides of the arguments with scrupulous even-handedness ... At every stop there are vivid anecdotes, sharp insights and telling details
Masterful ... Coll's in-depth reporting, buttressed by his anecdotal prose, makePrivate Empirea must-read ... [His] portrait of ExxonMobil is both riveting and appalling... YetPrivate Empireis not so much an indictment as a fascinating look into American business and politics
Meticulous, multi-angled and valuable ... Coll's prose sweeps the earth like an Imax camera
A thorough, sobering study of the pernicious consolidation of Big Oil ... jaw-dropping reading

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An "extraordinary" and "monumental" expos of Big Oil from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Coll ("The Washington Post"). In this, the first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobilNthe largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States--he reveals the true extent of its power.