Private Empire：ExxonMobil and American Power

图书标准信息

• 作者 SteveColl 著
• 出版社 Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
• 出版时间 2012-05
• ISBN 9781594203350
• 定价 266.20元
• 装帧 精装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 704页

【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.