TY - BOOK AU - Rachel Maddow TI - Blowout: corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on Earth SN - 9781984846723 U1 - 338.272 MAD PY - 2019/// CY - [New York] PB - Random House Audio KW - Tillerson, Rex, 1952---Ethics N2 - In 2010, the words earthquake swarm entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia - including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove - was sold at auction for more than one million dollars to a guy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, Ukrainian revolutionaries raided the palace of their ousted president and found a zoo of peacocks, gilded toilets, and a floating restaurant modeled after a Spanish galleon. Unlikely as it might seem, there is a thread connecting these events, and Rachel Maddow follows it to its crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry ER -