Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Des tructive Industry on Earth

US: Crown Publishing Group, 2019. Harback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy--Winner Tak e All "A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and a larming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world t oday."--The New York Times Book Review In 2010, the words "earthquake swarm" entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia--including his iconic cr ystal-encrusted white glove--was sold at auction for over $1 million to a g uy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, Ukrainian revolutionaries raided the pa lace 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 fo llows it to its crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corr upting oil and gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe, revealing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas along the way, and drawing a surprising conclusion about why the Russian government hacked the 2016 U.S. election. She deftly 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 West's most important alliances, and the United States. Chevron, BP, and.