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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 the halls of Congress, he reveals a story of dictators, oligarchs, civil war, blackmail, secrecy and ruthlessness. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and newly declassified documents, this is a chilling portrait of unchecked power. 'The definitive work on its subject . . . at every stop there are vivid anecdotes, sharp insights and telling details.' Ed Crooks, Financial Times 'Magisterial . . . a revealing history of our time.' New York Review of Books 'Meticulous, multi-angled and valuable . . . Coll's prose sweeps the earth like an Imax camera.' Dwight Garner, The New York Times 'Jaw-dropping reading.' Kirkus ReviewsProduct Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780718194475
eBay Product ID (ePID)148464077
Product Key Features
Number of Pages704 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePrivate Empire: Exxonmobil and American Power
Publication Year2013
SubjectEconomics, Business
TypeTextbook
AuthorSteve Coll
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight479 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorSteve Coll