Blowout (Record no. 8865)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781847926364
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 338.27MAD
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Maddow, Rachel.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Blowout
Remainder of title corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on Earth
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Crown
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxi, 406p.; 25 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Tillerson, Rex, 1952---Ethics.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 01/17/2025   338.27MAD 008309 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book