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  • Blowout

  • Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
  • Auteur(s): Rachel Maddow
  • Narrateur(s): Rachel Maddow
  • Durée: 15 h et 33 min
  • 4,7 out of 5 stars (313 évaluations)

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Blowout

Auteur(s): Rachel Maddow
Narrateur(s): Rachel Maddow
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2021 GRAMMY® Winner for Best Spoken Word Album

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All

“A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world today.”—The New York Times Book Review

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.”

©2019 Rachel Maddow (P)2019 Random House Audio

Ce que les critiques en disent

“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.”—Washington Post

“[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 (starred review)

“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.”Booklist (starred review)

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Wow wow wow

I’m a huge Maddow fan. This is such a compelling story (and holy crap...it’s freaking true) I could not stop listening

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Well-researched, though imbalanced by a narrative

It's an excellent book for making the case that it sets out to make. Clearly well-researched, and (at least for someone as boring as me) it was an interesting read with minimal filler (though one or two chapters may qualify).

My only substantive problem with it is that it felt like the plaintiff's argument on its own, with the facts honed to a particular ideology, anthropomorphizing an industry into a being that can be judged across generations, with no real attempt to explore rebuttal offered by the *individuals* named. In a word, it needs more balance.

The audio quality is fine. I marked it 4 stars there because the bar has been raised elsewhere on audible and because the (bizarre) step was taken to play a Russian song in the middle of the book. That's right up there with Tolkien's random elf poetry. Could have been left out.

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Way to go Rachel! Brilliant book !!

All the way from AB Canada, this book shined light on the oil and gas catastrophe for which I never knew existed. How it’s ruined our great land from corruption to climate crisis.
Rachel made it a fun and informative listen.

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Oil made fun!

Too get gas and drive your car , a staple in day to day life. it's hard to believe the insanity and history behind that meraculis flammable liquid.

You won't Wana put those headphones down !

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most excellent as usyal

thanks for putting in laymen's term for most of us. love you....you are amazing

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Amazing!

incredibly well researched! Rachel Maddow has outdone herself with the depth of this book. So well written, easy to follow, though complex in its content. The twists and turns are mind bending. Hearing it in her voice makes this book unbelievably powerful!

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Big Oil and Politics

In her inimitable way, Rachel Maddow explores the role of BIG OIL on global and American politics. it almost reads like a novel as she discusses the actions of some of the main characters such as Putin, his oligarchs, Rex Tillerson, the corrupt dictator of Equatorial Guinea, and others. The interaction of oil and gas and Oklahoma politics is quite enlightening. You will also learn all you need to know about fracking.
The decision to have Rachel do the narration of her own book made the whole narrative more worthwhile. Highly recommended.

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Heart breaking || Heart warming

Rachel brings perspective to an industry that has grown into a global parasite. The product itself, only a pipeline for profit and power.

Rachel describes how “power” makes telling the truth difficult or even dangerous, and that those without it seem to be the only people who stand against it (often a loosing proposition).

People do stand though. Stand with them.

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1 million thanks

This book is amazing I feel enriched, informed and appalled at once. Im compelled to share the wealth of information I've received.
Thanks Rachel

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A Tour de Force

Congratulations, Rachel. This book should be required reading/listening for everyone. Much to consider here.

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