The Secret World of Oil
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (924 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1781681376 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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In 2005, he received the Overseas Press Club Award for a series, co-written with T. Ken Silverstein is a fellow of the Edmond J. He was a 2010–2012 Open Society Fellow. He served as Washington editor of Harper's magazine from 2006 to 2010. Previously on the staff of the Los Angeles Times, Silverstein has also written for Mother Jones, Wallpaper, Washington Monthly, the Na
As Silverstein shows, these deals enrich the kleptocrats of our world and make life worse, rather than better, for their unfortunate subjects. After reading this book, you will never think about oil in the same way again.” —Michael Klare, author of The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources“Ken Silverstein’s sharp investigative reporting has again dragged a cast of shady operators into the public eye with his must-read book. For the first time, we encounter the fixers, flacks, a
Trey said First chapter was great, the rest kind of iffy. First chapter was great, the rest kind of iffy. There are better books on the energy business.. A scattershot approach to covering the title subject William Merrill The title of Ken Silverstein's new nonfiction book is The Secret World of Oil, but the chapters vary in how well they address aspects of the oil industry that are "secret." One area where he mostly succeeds is in his stories of the "fixers," important but little-known figures who serve as go-betweens for petroleum exploration companies interested in making deals with oil-producing countries (and the dictators who run them). These guys, the fixers, are a unique and often shady lot, but they serve a valuable and necessary function in the process.It was. JPfromOH said Amazing Story of the Oil Industry. I feel fortunate to have been able to read and review the page proofs for Ken Silverstein's The Secret World of Oil. The author certain digs deeply into the corruption, political intrigues, human rights violations, willful environmental damage, and issues associated with the petroleum industry. The more I read the book, though, the more that I really wanted to see citations and tangible documentation of Silverstein's claims. In fact, the lack of tangible references and the lack of a bibliography seemed very strange coming from a fellow of the Edmond
And every stage of the route, from discovery to consumption, is tainted by corruption and violence, even if little of that is visible to the public.Based on trips to New York, Washington, Houston, London, Paris, Geneva, Phnom Penh, Dakar, Lagos, Baku, and Moscow, among other far-flung locals, The Secret World of Oil includes up-close portraits of a shadowy Baku-based trader; a high-flying London fixer; and an oil dictator's playboy son who has to choose one of his eleven luxury vehicles when he heads out to party in Los Angeles. Supported by funding from the prestigious Open Society, this is both an entertaining global travelogue and a major work of investigative reporting.. The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it,