Private Empire ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll aBOOK torrent

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
General Information
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type.................: MP3, ePUB
Platform.............: Any
File Validation......: SFV
Image type...........: CD Rip

Title................: Private Empire: ExxonMobil And American Power by Steve Coll
Artist...............: Steve Coll
Album................: Private Empire: ExxonMobil And American Power
Year.................: 2012
Genre................: Non-Fiction
Comment..............: Read by Malcolm Hillgartner
Type.................: Audiobook
Duration.............: 24hous 16mins
Number of Songs......: 219
Cover(s) Included....: Yes

Ripper...............: Winamp
Bitrate..............: 32
Hz...................: 11,025
Channels.............: Joint Stereo
Source...............: CD


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Release Notes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Private Empire: ExxonMobil And American Power by Steve Coll

Product Details:
Read by Malcolm Hillgartner
Audible Audio Edition
Length: 24 hours and 16 minutes
Type: Unabridged / Joint Stereo
MP3 Coded: 32 kbps / 11025 hz
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Audible.com Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Paperback: 704 pages
ASIN: B007Z96FBM

Editorial Reviews:
Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the
United States, revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil's annual
revenues are larger than the economic activity in the great majority of
countries. In many of the countries where it conducts business, ExxonMobil's
sway over politics and security is greater than that of the United States
embassy. In Washington, ExxonMobil spends more money lobbying Congress and the
White House than almost any other corporation. Yet despite its outsized
influence, it is a black box.

Private Empire pulls back the curtain, tracking the corporation's recent history
and its central role on the world stage, beginning with the Exxon Valdez
accident in 1989 and leading to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of
Mexico in 2010. The action spans the globe, moving from Moscow, to impoverished
African capitals, Indonesia, and elsewhere in heart-stopping scenes that feature
kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin.

At home, Coll goes inside ExxonMobil's K Street office and corporation
headquarters in Irving, Texas, where top executives in the "God Pod" (as
employees call it) oversee an extraordinary corporate culture of discipline and
secrecy.

The narrative is driven by larger-than-life characters, including corporate
legend Lee "Iron Ass" Raymond, ExxonMobil's chief executive until 2005. A close
friend of Dick Cheney's, Raymond was both the most successful and effective oil
executive of his era and an unabashed skeptic about climate change and
government regulation. This position proved difficult to maintain in the face of
new science and political change, and Raymond's successor, current ExxonMobil
chief executive Rex Tillerson, broke with Raymond's programs in an effort to
reset ExxonMobil's public image. The larger cast includes countless world
leaders, plutocrats, dictators, guerrillas, and corporate scient...

⌐2012 Steve Coll; (P)2012 Penguin