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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Big Oil and Gas Versus
Democracy--Winner Take All In 2010, the words ",earthquake swarm",
entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael
Jackson memorabilia--including his iconic crystal-encrusted white
glove--was sold at auction for over $1 million to a guy who was,
officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of
Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, Ukrainian revolutionaries raided
the palace of their ousted president and found a zoo of peacocks,
gilded toilets, and a floating restaurant modeled after a Spanish
galleon. Unlikely as it might seem, there is a thread connecting
these events, and Rachel Maddow follows it to its crooked source:
the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas
industry. 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. The oil and gas industry has weakened democracies in
developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and
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 a call to contain the lion: to
stop subsidizing the wealthiest businesses on earth, to fight for
transparency, and to check the influence of the world's most
destructive industry and its enablers. The stakes have never been
higher. As Maddow writes, ",Democracy either wins this one or
disappears.",
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