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Also by Tony Horwitz:

Boom, February 2014
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Midnight Rising, November 2011
Hardcover
A Voyage Long and Strange, May 2008
Hardcover

BOOM
By: Tony Horwitz

Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline

Byliner
February 2014
On Sale: January 29, 2014
ISBN: 0148247512
EAN: 2940148247517
Kindle: B00I7DSONM
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A ROLLICKING STORY ABOUT LIFE ALONG THE CONTROVERSIAL KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE, BY THE PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR OF "CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC"

In this lively story, evocative of bestselling road-trip classics such as William Least Heat Moon’s “Blue Highways” and Bill Bryson’s “The Lost Continent,” Pulitzer Prize–winning author Tony Horwitz takes an epic journey along one of the most hotly debated stretches of land in North America: the route of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. Armed with maps and cheerful curiosity, he travels from the oil-drunk boomtown of Fort McMurray, Alberta (a.k.a. Fort McMoney), down through the plains and prairie of the United States, where mountains of pipe lie in wait for the torrent of crude that could soon flow if the White House approves the controversial plan to turn on the spigots that will deliver oil from Canada directly to the Gulf of Mexico.

Along the way, Horwitz meets a cavalcade of characters, including ranchers who either love or loathe the idea of oil flowing beneath their land, “rig pigs” and “cement heads” who are eager to make a buck in the tar sands, and strippers and other local entrepreneurs who are ready to help them spend it. He drives miles of lonesome road in his quest to understand what this pipeline means to everyone involved—from Native Americans to environmentalists to industry bureaucrats. He sees firsthand not only how an oil spill can devastate acres of rich farmland, but how opportunity in the oil patch can enrich lives and towns. Over homemade farm dinners and countless tavern beers, Horwitz realizes that the questions surrounding the XL debate go beyond pat declarations about independence from foreign oil or the damage wrought by one pipeline. They go to the heart of an energy revolution that is transforming North America, with enormous consequences for its economy, environment, and foreign policy.

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