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The Secret World of Oil
Ken Silverstein
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Description for The Secret World of Oil
Paperback. "An engaging journey through the sector's murkiest crevices, shot through with ill-concealed disgust at the corruption at its heart." - Financial Times Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JPZ; KNBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 312.
Oil is the lifeblood of modern civilization, and the industry that supplies it has been the subject of intense interest and scrutiny, as well as countless books. And yet, almost no attention has been paid to little-known characters vital to the industry-secretive fixers and oil traders, lobbyists and PR agents, gangsters and dictators-allied with competing governments and multinational corporations. Virtually every stage in oil's production process, from discovery to consumption, is greased by secret connections, corruption, and violence, even if little of that is visible to the public. The energy industry, to cite just one measure, violates the US Foreign ... Read more
Oil is the lifeblood of modern civilization, and the industry that supplies it has been the subject of intense interest and scrutiny, as well as countless books. And yet, almost no attention has been paid to little-known characters vital to the industry-secretive fixers and oil traders, lobbyists and PR agents, gangsters and dictators-allied with competing governments and multinational corporations. Virtually every stage in oil's production process, from discovery to consumption, is greased by secret connections, corruption, and violence, even if little of that is visible to the public. The energy industry, to cite just one measure, violates the US Foreign ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781688670
SKU
V9781781688670
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99-3
About Ken Silverstein
Ken Silverstein is a Senior Investigative Reporter with First Look Media. He has been a Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Univeristy and at Open Society Foundations. 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, ... Read more
Reviews for The Secret World of Oil
An engaging journey through the sector's murkiest crevices, shot through with ill-concealed disgust at the corruption at its heart.
Financial Times
Crude oil covers crude business practices. In this investigation journalist Ken Silverstein swims through this murky moral world.
New Statesman
Ken Silverstein's sharp investigative reporting has again dragged a cast of shady operators into the ... Read more
Financial Times
Crude oil covers crude business practices. In this investigation journalist Ken Silverstein swims through this murky moral world.
New Statesman
Ken Silverstein's sharp investigative reporting has again dragged a cast of shady operators into the ... Read more