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Private Empire：ExxonMobil and American Power

Private Empire：ExxonMobil and American Power

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作者: SteveColl 著

出版社: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

出版时间: 2012-05

ISBN: 9781594203350

定价: 266.20

装帧: 精装

开本: 其他

纸张: 其他

页数: 704页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>历史

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InPrivateEmpireSteveCollinvestigatesthelargestandmostpowerfulprivatecorporationintheUnitedStates,revealingthetrueextentofitspower.ExxonMobil’sannualrevenuesarelargerthantheeconomicactivityinthegreatmajorityofcountries.Inmanyofthecountrieswhereitconductsbusiness,ExxonMobil’sswayoverpoliticsandsecurityisgreaterthanthatoftheUnitedStatesembassy.InWashington,ExxonMobilspendsmoremoneylobbyingCongressandtheWhiteHousethanalmostanyothercorporation.Yetdespiteitsoutsizedinfluence,itisablackbox.
PrivateEmpirepullsbackthecurtain,trackingthecorporation’srecenthistoryanditscentralroleontheworldstage,beginningwiththeExxonValdezaccidentin1989andleadingtotheDeepwaterHorizonoilspillintheGulfofMexicoin2010.Theactionspanstheglobe,movingfromMoscow,toimpoverishedAfricancapitals,Indonesia,andelsewhereinheart-stoppingscenesthatfeaturekidnappingcases,civilwars,andhigh-stakesstrugglesattheKremlin.Athome,CollgoesinsideExxonMobil’sKStreetofficeandcorporationheadquartersinIrving,Texas,wheretopexecutivesinthe“GodPod”(asemployeescallit)overseeanextraordinarycorporatecultureofdisciplineandsecrecy.
Thenarrativeisdrivenbylargerthanlifecharacters,includingcorporatelegendLee“IronAss”Raymond,ExxonMobil’schiefexecutiveuntil2005.AclosefriendofDickCheney’s,Raymondwasboththemostsuccessfulandeffectiveoilexecutiveofhiseraandanunabashedskepticaboutclimatechangeandgovernmentregulation..ThispositionproveddifficulttomaintaininthefaceofnewscienceandpoliticalchangeandRaymond’ssuccessor,currentExxonMobilchiefexecutiveRexTillerson,brokewithRaymond’sprogramsinanefforttoresetExxonMobil’spublicimage.Thelargercastincludescountlessworldleaders,plutocrats,dictators,guerrillas,andcorporatescientistswhoarepartofExxonMobil’scolossalstory.
Thefirsthard-hittingexaminationofExxonMobil,PrivateEmpireisthemasterfulresultofColl’sindefatigablereporting.Hedrawshereonmorethanfourhundredinterviews;fieldreportingfromthehallsofCongresstotheoil-ladenswampsoftheNigerDelta;morethanonethousandpagesofpreviouslyclassifiedU.S.documentsobtainedundertheFreedomofInformationAct;heretoforeunexaminedcourtrecords;andmanyothersources.Apenetrating,newsbreakingstudy,PrivateEmpireisadefiningportraitofExxonMobilandtheplaceofBigOilinAmericanpoliticsandforeignpolicy.

Steve Coll is most recently the author of the New York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens. He is the president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Previously heworked for twenty years at The Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990. He is the author of six other books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Ghost Wars.
内容简介:
InPrivateEmpireSteveCollinvestigatesthelargestandmostpowerfulprivatecorporationintheUnitedStates,revealingthetrueextentofitspower.ExxonMobil’sannualrevenuesarelargerthantheeconomicactivityinthegreatmajorityofcountries.Inmanyofthecountrieswhereitconductsbusiness,ExxonMobil’sswayoverpoliticsandsecurityisgreaterthanthatoftheUnitedStatesembassy.InWashington,ExxonMobilspendsmoremoneylobbyingCongressandtheWhiteHousethanalmostanyothercorporation.Yetdespiteitsoutsizedinfluence,itisablackbox.
PrivateEmpirepullsbackthecurtain,trackingthecorporation’srecenthistoryanditscentralroleontheworldstage,beginningwiththeExxonValdezaccidentin1989andleadingtotheDeepwaterHorizonoilspillintheGulfofMexicoin2010.Theactionspanstheglobe,movingfromMoscow,toimpoverishedAfricancapitals,Indonesia,andelsewhereinheart-stoppingscenesthatfeaturekidnappingcases,civilwars,andhigh-stakesstrugglesattheKremlin.Athome,CollgoesinsideExxonMobil’sKStreetofficeandcorporationheadquartersinIrving,Texas,wheretopexecutivesinthe“GodPod”(asemployeescallit)overseeanextraordinarycorporatecultureofdisciplineandsecrecy.
Thenarrativeisdrivenbylargerthanlifecharacters,includingcorporatelegendLee“IronAss”Raymond,ExxonMobil’schiefexecutiveuntil2005.AclosefriendofDickCheney’s,Raymondwasboththemostsuccessfulandeffectiveoilexecutiveofhiseraandanunabashedskepticaboutclimatechangeandgovernmentregulation..ThispositionproveddifficulttomaintaininthefaceofnewscienceandpoliticalchangeandRaymond’ssuccessor,currentExxonMobilchiefexecutiveRexTillerson,brokewithRaymond’sprogramsinanefforttoresetExxonMobil’spublicimage.Thelargercastincludescountlessworldleaders,plutocrats,dictators,guerrillas,andcorporatescientistswhoarepartofExxonMobil’scolossalstory.
Thefirsthard-hittingexaminationofExxonMobil,PrivateEmpireisthemasterfulresultofColl’sindefatigablereporting.Hedrawshereonmorethanfourhundredinterviews;fieldreportingfromthehallsofCongresstotheoil-ladenswampsoftheNigerDelta;morethanonethousandpagesofpreviouslyclassifiedU.S.documentsobtainedundertheFreedomofInformationAct;heretoforeunexaminedcourtrecords;andmanyothersources.Apenetrating,newsbreakingstudy,PrivateEmpireisadefiningportraitofExxonMobilandtheplaceofBigOilinAmericanpoliticsandforeignpolicy.
作者简介:
Steve Coll is most recently the author of the New York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens. He is the president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Previously heworked for twenty years at The Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990. He is the author of six other books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Ghost Wars.

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