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  • Blowout

  • Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
  • By: Rachel Maddow
  • Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
  • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Blowout

By: Rachel Maddow
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** Winner of the 2021 GRAMMY® Best Spoken Word Album **

Award-winning American news presenter Rachel Maddow investigates remarkable stories from around the globe, all leading back to the same crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry.

From Oklahoma, Texas and Washington, to Kyiv, Siberia and Moscow, to Equatorial Guinea and Alaska; from a mansion in Malibu with the world's largest collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia to luxury hotels in central London; from deep within the earth's crust to the icy surface of the Arctic seas, Blowout uncovers a web of international corruption.

With her trademark black humour, Maddow takes us through the purposeful detonation of a fifty-kiloton nuclear bomb underground near Colarado, man-made earthquakes, murdered cows and the international financial crisis, to the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas, and a surprising conclusion about why the Russian government hacked the 2016 U.S. election. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, most notably ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson.

The oil and gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, "like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can't really blame the lion. It's in her nature."

Blowout
is a call to contain the lion: to stop subsidizing the wealthiest businesses on earth, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of the world's most destructive industry and its enablers. The stakes have never been higher. As Maddow writes, "Democracy either wins this one or disappears."

©2020 Rachel Maddow (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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It takes enormous talent to balance brutal honesty with scorching wit. Rachel Maddow has it in spades; exposing the truth about how the fossil fuel industry threatens our existence both as a democratic people and as an entire species. Each page in Blowout is a revelation into the depth of corruption and greed that is infused into the international economy. We should be grateful that Maddow has found herself on the frontline of resistance (David Lammy, MP)

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Excellent

Love Rachel Maddow’s investigative reporting. So informative and compelling. I have learned so much about this corrupt industry.

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Blow out

Love you Rachel.
Fantastic story teller clever, funny sobering.
Keep it up Rachel - you rock. Xxx

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Amazingly understandable..

I love this book and have listened to it several times to get a more complete understanding. I have the Audible copy which is read by Rachel Maddow herself, making this a total not to miss.

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