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Private Empire
Steve Coll
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Description for Private Empire
Paperback. The oil giant ExxonMobil makes more money annually than the GDP of most countries; has greater sway than US embassies abroad; and spends more on lobbying than any other corporation. Yet to outsiders it is a mystery. In this title, the author tells the truth about the world's most powerful and shadowy company. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; KJZ; KNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 39. Weight in Grams: 482.
From twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comes Private Empire, winner of the FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2012
The oil giant ExxonMobil makes more money annually than the GDP of most countries; has greater sway than US embassies abroad; and spends more on lobbying than any other corporation. Yet to outsiders it is a mystery. In Private Empire, award-winning reporter Steve Coll tells the truth about the world's most powerful and shadowy company.
From the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, via Moscow, the swamps of the Niger Delta and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780718194475
SKU
V9780718194475
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About Steve Coll
Steve Coll is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens. He is president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a staff writer for The New Yorker. He won a Pulitzer prize for explanatory journalism while working at the Washingon Post. He is the author of six other ... Read more
Reviews for Private Empire
Magisterial ... a revealing history of our time
Bill McKibben
New York Review of Books
Meticulously researched and elegantly written, it is likely to be the definitive work on its subject for many years to come. Steve Coll ... is honest about Exxon's strengths as well as its flaws, and presents both sides of the arguments with ... Read more
Bill McKibben
New York Review of Books
Meticulously researched and elegantly written, it is likely to be the definitive work on its subject for many years to come. Steve Coll ... is honest about Exxon's strengths as well as its flaws, and presents both sides of the arguments with ... Read more