The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein
Interested? Of course, this is why, we intend you to click the web link page to visit, then you can enjoy guide The Secret World Of Oil, By Ken Silverstein downloaded till completed. You can conserve the soft data of this The Secret World Of Oil, By Ken Silverstein in your gizmo. Of course, you will bring the device almost everywhere, won't you? This is why, every time you have extra time, every single time you could appreciate reading by soft copy book The Secret World Of Oil, By Ken Silverstein
The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein
Free PDF Ebook The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein
The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments, and multinational corporations, and until now, no book has set out to tell the story of this largely hidden world.The global fleet of some 11,000 tankers—that's tripled during the past decade—moves approximately 2 billion metric tons of oil annually. And every stage of the route, from discovery to consumption, is tainted by corruption and violence, even if little of that is visible to the public.Based on trips to New York, Washington, Houston, London, Paris, Geneva, Phnom Penh, Dakar, Lagos, Baku, and Moscow, among other far-flung locals, The Secret World of Oil includes up-close portraits of a shadowy Baku-based trader; a high-flying London fixer; and an oil dictator's playboy son who has to choose one of his eleven luxury vehicles when he heads out to party in Los Angeles. Supported by funding from the prestigious Open Society, this is both an entertaining global travelogue and a major work of investigative reporting.
The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein- Amazon Sales Rank: #1635434 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Released on: 2015-05-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.74" h x .82" w x 5.11" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
Review “Ken Silverstein is one of the best investigative journalists of his generation – or any generation. The Secret World of Oil is a masterpiece of revelation. With a deft combination of detail and color, Silverstein exposes the darkest shade of crude: the fixers and middlemen who arrange the deals that provide us with the oil we need to keep our cars running and our homes warm. As Silverstein shows, these deals enrich the kleptocrats of our world and make life worse, rather than better, for their unfortunate subjects. It is a shameful and captivating tale about a pipeline of corruption that we must fix.” —Peter Maass, author of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil “Much has been written about the oil industry, but Ken Silverstein provides an entirely new window into this vitally important universe. For the first time, we encounter the fixers, flacks, and traders behind the secretive deals that drive the industry and enrich its leading operators. After reading this book, you will never think about oil in the same way again.” —Michael Klare, author of The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources“Ken Silverstein’s sharp investigative reporting has again dragged a cast of shady operators into the public eye with his must-read book. Oil is the cause of so much pain in the world. As the fossil fuel industry tightens its grip on our warming planet, The Secret World of Oil names names, and exposes the brokers, lobbyists, and fixers who profit from the misery of millions and the accelerating pollution of the planet.” —Amy Goodman, host and executive producer, Democracy Now!"Silverstein writes with keen reportorial objectivity but also understandable skepticism about ... the frighteningly tyrannical hold that oil has on the free (and not-so-free) world. The book’s revelations make Wall Street corruption seem tame by comparison."—Kirkus ReviewsFrom the Hardcover edition.
About the Author Ken Silverstein is a Senior Investigative Reporter with First Look Media. He has been a Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and at Open Society Foundations. He served as Washington Editor of Harper’s Magazine from 2006 to 2010. Previously on the staff of the Los Angeles Times, Silverstein has also written for Mother Jones, Wallpaper, Washington Monthly, the Nation, Slate, Salon, and many other publications.
Where to Download The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein
Most helpful customer reviews
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful. A scattershot approach to covering the title subject By William Merrill The title of Ken Silverstein's new nonfiction book is The Secret World of Oil, but the chapters vary in how well they address aspects of the oil industry that are "secret." One area where he mostly succeeds is in his stories of the "fixers," important but little-known figures who serve as go-betweens for petroleum exploration companies interested in making deals with oil-producing countries (and the dictators who run them). These guys, the fixers, are a unique and often shady lot, but they serve a valuable and necessary function in the process.It was my expectation that this book would reveal hidden industry practices relating to oil drilling, transportation, refining, and the like, but Silverstein focuses much more on the business side. (If I took a hint from the cover art, perhaps this wouldn't have been a surprise.) There are lawyers and lobbyists, traders and politicians. Sometimes the author strays fairly far from his main topic, as when he profiles Glencore, the world's largest commodities brokerage firm. They trade in all kinds of commodities, not just petroleum, but particularly zinc, copper, coal, and grain. Some chapters help us learn things that we already know, such as that dictators who run small Third World countries are usually in it for their own gain and not the betterment of their citizens.The Secret World also has a "thrown together" kind of feel, as the author seems to just say, "OK, I'm done with that topic -- now onto another." Apart from their connection by the topic of the oil industry (and sometimes even that is missing), there's no clear overarching narrative.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Amazing Story of the Oil Industry By JPfromOH I feel fortunate to have been able to read and review the page proofs for Ken Silverstein's The Secret World of Oil. The author certain digs deeply into the corruption, political intrigues, human rights violations, willful environmental damage, and issues associated with the petroleum industry. The more I read the book, though, the more that I really wanted to see citations and tangible documentation of Silverstein's claims. In fact, the lack of tangible references and the lack of a bibliography seemed very strange coming from a fellow of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Although my suspicions are that Silverstein may be spot-on regarding the shady figures about whom he writes, the book at times seems too much like a left-wing version of the sensationalism that tends to be associated with right-wing radio commentators and "news" outlets. With some scholarly documentation, this could easily be a 4-star book. Without the documentation, there are just too many questions about the legitimacy of the claims.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Recommend, with reservations By TopCat19 The secret world of oil will probably be just as secretive after you've read the book. It's an interesting enough book, in its own way, but the title is a little misleading. What the author does is profile five different individuals, one per chapter, who are players in the oil game, among other things. Some of them will probably be familiar, some not so much. One chapter is titled "The Traders: Glencore" and features the huge and secretive firm of Glencore, and some other companies, to a lesser degree. Another chapter is "The Lobbyists: Louisiana", which should be self-explanatory. The good news is that all of this is actually quite interesting, and I'm glad that I read the book, but a lot of this didn't have all that much to do with oil. The book was well-written and kept my interest. It just wasn't quite what I had expected, given the title, and the review that I read beforehand. If you have an interest in the oil industry and know a bit about it, this would be a good complementary book to read, but if you're looking for a straightforward, here's how the industry works, this is not it.
See all 29 customer reviews... The Secret World of Oil, by Ken SilversteinThe Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein PDF
The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein iBooks
The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein ePub
The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein rtf
The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein AZW
The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar