Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power“ExxonMobil has met its match in Coll, an elegant writer and dogged reporter . . . extraordinary . . . monumental.” —The Washington Post “Fascinating . . . Private Empire is a book meticulously prepared as if for trial . . . a compelling and elucidatory work.” —Bloomberg From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, an extraordinary exposé of Big Oil. Includes a profile of current Secretary of State and former chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson In this, the first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil—the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States—Steve Coll reveals the true extent of its power. 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—featuring kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin—and the narrative is driven by larger-than-life characters, including corporate legend Lee “Iron Ass” Raymond, ExxonMobil’s chief executive until 2005, and current chairman and chief executive Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's nomination for Secretary of State. A penetrating, news-breaking study, Private Empire is a defining portrait of Big Oil in American politics and foreign policy. |
Contents
Two Iron Ass | |
Three Is the Earth Really Warming? | |
Four Do You Really Want Us as an Enemy? | |
Five Unknown Injury | |
Six E G Month | |
Seven The Camel and the Jackal | |
Sixteen Chad Can Live Without Oil | |
Seventeen I Pray for Exxon | |
Eighteen We Will Need Witnesses | |
Nineteen The Cash Waterfall | |
Twenty Moonshine | |
Twentyone Cant the C I A and the Navy Solve This | |
Twentytwo A Person Would Have to Eat More Than 3400 | |
Twentythree We Must End the Age of Oil | |
Eight We Target Oil Companies | |
Nine Real MenThey Discover Oil | |
Ten Its Not Quite as Bad as It Sounds | |
Eleven The Haifa Pipeline | |
Twelve How High Can We Fly? | |
Thirteen Assisted Regime Change | |
Fourteen Informed Influentials | |
Fifteen On My Honor | |
Twentyfour Are We Out? Or In? | |
Twentyfive Its Not My Money to Tithe | |
Twentysix Were Confident You Can Book the Reserves | |
Twentyseven One Plus One Has Got to Equal Three | |
Twentyeight It Just Happened | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
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