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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Politics & government

BLOWOUT

Rachel Maddow

Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

BLOWOUT offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry.

With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe - from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea - exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She 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 United States, and the West's most important alliances.

This book is a clarion call to stop subsidizing the wealthiest industry on earth, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of predatory oil executives and their enablers. The stakes have never been higher. As Maddow writes, "Democracy either wins this one or disappears."

Rachel Maddow is host of the Emmy Award-winning "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC, as well the author of Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, a #1 New York Times bestseller. Maddow received a bachelor's degree in public policy from Stanford University and earned her doctorate in political science at Oxford University, which she attended on a Rhodes Scholarship.

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Book Published 2019-10-01 by Crown
Book Published 2019-10-01 by Crown

Comments

[Maddow] may be a popular, progressive news-and-commentary anchor on MSNBC, but it's not to be forgotten that she holds a doctorate in politics from Oxford and seems to devour whole libraries of data before breakfast each day. ... Expect a tweetstorm as Maddow's indictment of a corrupt industry finds readers - and it deserves many.

At its heart, this book is a tale of two countries, the United States and Russia, and how, as Maddow sees it - individually and together - they have been warped by a rapacious fossil fuel industry. ...Fulminating comes easy to Rachel Maddow. What sets her apart from other serial fulminators is that she does it with facts - and sardonic wit.

All fans of Maddow, and even her detractors, will learn something new from this highly readable yet impressively detailed book. Anyone interested in the covert deals that change the nature of the global environmental and political landscape will devour. A must-have for all collections.

Radiates zing, intelligence, and black humor. Much like its author.

Known for her intense inquiries into complex subjects, Maddow brings her laser-like intuitiveness and keen and wily perception to Big Oil, that stalwart of global economics, and the shadowy nexus of commerce and politics. Maddow likes murky, the murkier the better, and her examination of the intricacies of off-shore drilling, transnational pipelines, and hydraulic fracking is as deep as the coveted wells themselves.... Like trailblazing journalists before her, Maddow exposes both the slapdash and sinister practices underlying geopolitics and energy policies and revels in peeling back the layers of malfeasance to stoke righteous outrage.

Rachel Maddow's BLOWOUT is Number One on the New York Times hardcover (and e-book) Non-fiction best-seller for the week of October 20.

Expect a tweetstorm as Maddow's indictment of a corrupt industry finds readers - and it deserves many.