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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

door Rachel Maddow

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"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.""--… (meer)
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    Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power door Steve Coll (brianjungwi)
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    Moneyland door Oliver Bullough (M_Clark)
    M_Clark: Moneyland describes how the money stolen from the escapes in Blowout becomes hidden away and untouchable in what the author describes as the world of Moneyland.
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    The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power door Daniel Yergin (M_Clark)
    M_Clark: This is a great history of the oil industry from the very beginning up until some of the more recent oil crises.
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Everybody on the planet should read this book, especially those who have lost their way and can no longer tell fact from fiction. Maddow takes seemingly disparate stories and shows how they have interwoven to create the challenges we have seen arise recently around the world. Real journalists and journalism are vital to keep our democracies on track. ( )
  BBrookes | Nov 16, 2023 |
Saw this on the shelf of free books at the library.
It reads just like Maddow talks, biased, too many "unnamed sources", repetitive.
In places it jumps to and from unrelated subjects and not enough details to make clear sense of it all.
This could have been very interesting, and maybe if a better writer told the story it would have been. ( )
  Rockhead515 | Dec 22, 2022 |
Interesting and well-constructed but I was expecting an 'A-ha!' moment that would pull all the disparate threads together and it just didn't happen. ( )
  fionaanne | Nov 28, 2022 |
Interesting inside in one of the most powerful industry in the world. And it shows how we are in the most current conflict with Russia and Ukraine. I am from the US so it's interesting how it breaks it down to people and industries. Interesting read ( )
  LedzMx | Sep 4, 2022 |
As much as I like listening to Rachel Maddow I find that I am not interested enough in the oil industry to enjoy this book. DNF. ( )
  Dokfintong | Aug 18, 2022 |
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"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.""--

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