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

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Rachel Maddow

Blowout

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

Rachel Maddow

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Bodley Head
04 February 2020

History; Political structures: democracy; Political corruption; Petroleum & oil industries; Impact of science & technology on society
English

A ground-breaking investigation into the oil and gas industry, international corruption and world politics THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Corrupt? Yes. Unimaginably lucrative? Of course. But the enemy of democracy? Blowout is the oil and gas industry as we've never seen it before. Blowout is a blackly comic switchback journey with America's most incisive political journalist, from Washington to Siberia and Equatorial Guinea, from deep within the earth's crust to the icy Arctic seas. We witness the underground detonation of a nuclear bomb, an inept Russian spy ring, an international financial crisis, and murdered cows. And what it reveals is not just the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas but why the Russian government hacked the 2016 U.S. election. Because Russia's rich reserves of crude have in fact stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia's rot into its rivals, its neighbours, and the West's alliances. The oil and gas industry has polluted oceans and rivers but also polluted democracy itself - in developing and developed countries. It has propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, 'like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can't really blame the lion. It's in her nature.' Blowout is our final wake-up call- to stop subsidizing oil and gas, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of the world's most destructive industry. The stakes have never been higher. As Maddow writes, 'Democracy either wins this one or disappears.'

By: Rachel Maddow
Imprint: Bodley Head
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 39mm
Weight: 783g
ISBN: 9781847926364
ISBN 10: 1847926363
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 04 February 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Rachel Maddow is host of the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, as well as the author of Drift- The Unmooring of American Military Power, a number one 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. She lives in New York City and Massachusetts.

Reviews for Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

[Rachel 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 * Kirkus Reviews *