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A stunning and revealing examination of oil?s indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it.
Knopf
October 2009
On Sale: September 22, 2009
288 pages
ISBN: 1400041694
EAN: 9781400041695
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in
its own way, but all are touched by the “resource curse”—the
power of oil to exacerbate existing problems and create new
ones. In Crude World, Peter Maass presents a vivid portrait
of the troubled world oil has created. He takes us to Saudi
Arabia, where officials deflect inquiries about the amount
of petroleum remaining in the country’s largest reservoir;
to Equatorial Guinea, where two tennis courts grace an
oil-rich dictator’s estate but bandages and aspirin are a
hospital’s only supplies; and to Venezuela, where Hugo
Chávez’s campaign to redistribute oil wealth creates new
economic and political crises. Maass, a New York Times Magazine writer, also introduces us
to Iraqi oilmen trying
to rebuild their industry after the invasion of 2003, an
American lawyer leading Ecuadorians in an unprecedented
lawsuit against Chevron, a Russian oil billionaire
imprisoned for his defiance of Vladimir Putin’s leadership,
and Nigerian villagers whose livelihoods are destroyed by
the discovery of oil. Rebels, royalty, middlemen,
environmentalists, indigenous activists, CEOs—their stories,
deftly and sensitively presented, tell the larger story of
oil in our time. Crude World is a startling and essential
account of the consequences of our addiction to oil.
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