BLOWOUT

Reviewed 7/28/2022

Blowout, by Rachel Maddow

BLOWOUT Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth Rachel Maddow New York: Crown Books, October 2019				Rating: 5.0 High
ISBN-13 978-0-525-57547-4
ISBN-10 0-525-57547-2	406pp.	HC/GSI	$30.00

	Introduction: In a Surrealist Landscape	ix
ONE	SPLENDOR AND FRAGRANCE	3
TWO	THE GENIE	11
THREE	STOLEN GOODS	28
FOUR	CHARLIE HUSTLE	44
FIVE	THUNDER UP!	56
SIX	REX SHRUGGED	69
SEVEN	A RISK MANAGEMENT PROBLEM	81
EIGHT	POSTER BOY	95
NINE	PRACTICAL REALITIES	107
TEN	WHO DOES THAT?	120
ELEVEN	THE OTHER 1 PERCENT	134
TWELVE	ULTRAHAZARDOUS ACTIVITY	152
THIRTEEN	A SIGNIFICANT STRATEGIC STEP	162
FOURTEEN	TRUST	168
FIFTEEN	THE HANDSOME HERO	175
SIXTEEN	THIS AIN'T NO DISCO	184
SEVENTEEN	SUCH A MAN IS BORN ONCE EVERY FEW DECADES	203
EIGHTEEN	PUTIN ZASSAL	217
NINETEEN	ALL HAIL THE MERCENARIES	226
TWENTY	HIS IDEA OF AMERICA	245
TWENTY-ONE	BECAUSE THEY COULD	255
TWENTY-TWO	"WE GREATLY VALUE OUR RELATIONSHIP"	269
TWENTY-THREE	POBEDA!	280
TWENTY-FOUR	"YEAH THAT WAS CRAZY"	290
TWENTY-FIVE	ACTIVE APPRECIATION	306
TWENTY-SIX	IT ALL TIES BACK	316
TWENTY-SEVEN	"ALL THEY HAVE IS THIS"	328
TWENTY-EIGHT	"CONSTITUENCY TRUMPS EVERYTHING"	343
TWENTY-NINE	CONTAINMENT	351

	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	369
	NOTES ON SOURCES	371
	INDEX	391

1 At least, so goes the legend familiar to most Americans. But in fact the first oil wells were dug a few years before that on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains in the Kingdom of Galicia. Or perhaps in Romania. Then again, there is a claim of a well dug in 1847 in Trinidad & Tobago, next to its "pitch lake." Oil seeped out of the ground in many places, so it is difficult to determine priority.

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