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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth Hardcover - 2019

by Maddow, Rachel

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The author offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow exposes the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas.

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Crown, 2019, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Royal octavo, hardcover, fine in fine gray and black pictorial dj. 406 pp. including index and notes on author (very intelligent outspoken liberal host on MSNBC whose father is a local attorney in Walnut Creek). 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 a host of other industry players get their star turn, most notably ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson.
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  • Booklist, 09/15/2019, Page 3
  • Choice, 06/01/2020, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2019, Page 137
  • Library Journal, 10/01/2019, Page 114
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/26/2019, Page 0

About the author

Rachel Maddow is host of the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, as well as the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power; Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth; and Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House. Maddow received a bachelor's degree in public policy from Stanford University and earned her doctorate in political science at Oxford University. She lives in New York City and Massachusetts with her partner, artist Susan Mikula.