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.
In Private Empire Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil's annual revenues are larger than the economic activity in the great majority of countries. In many of the countries where it conducts business, ExxonMobil's sway over politics and security is greater than that of the United States embassy. In Washington, ExxonMobil spends more money lobbying Congress and the White House than almost any other corporation. Yet despite its outsized influence, it is a black box.
Private Empire pulls back the curtain, tracking the corporation's recent history and its central role on the world stage, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and leading to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The action spans the globe, moving from Moscow, to impoverished African capitals, Indonesia, and elsewhere in heart-stopping scenes that feature kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin. At home, Coll goes inside ExxonMobil's K Street office and corporation headquarters in Irving, Texas, where top executives in the "God Pod" (as employees call it) oversee an extraordinary corporate culture of discipline and secrecy.
The narrative is driven by larger than life characters, including corporate legend Lee "Iron Ass" Raymond, ExxonMobil's chief executive until 2005. A close friend of Dick Cheney's, Raymond was both the most successful and effective oil executive of his era and an unabashed skeptic about climate change and government regulation.. This position proved difficult to maintain in the face of new science and political change and Raymond's successor, current ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson, broke with Raymond's programs in an effort to reset ExxonMobil's public image. The larger cast includes countless world leaders, plutocrats, dictators, guerrillas, and corporate scientists who are part of ExxonMobil's colossal story.
The first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil, Private Empire is the masterful result of Coll's indefatigable reporting. He draws here on more than four hundred interviews; field reporting from the halls of Congress to the oil-laden swamps of the Niger Delta; more than one thousand pages of previously classified U.S. documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act; heretofore unexamined court records; and many other sources. A penetrating, newsbreaking study, Private Empire is a defining portrait of ExxonMobil and the place of Big Oil in American politics and foreign policy.
發表於2025-03-11
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圖書標籤: 商業 ExxonMobil 美國 政治 Business 石油 曆史 財經(經濟+金融+商業)
埃剋森老總最近接受采訪時說油價降到60美元一桶埃剋森照樣能盈利,這話讓中國的三大油情可以堪啊。
評分印尼、俄羅斯、委內瑞拉、赤道幾內亞、乍得、伊拉剋,帝國無處不在。這也是為什麼選蒂勒森當國務卿的原因。環保、安全生産、腐敗、種族衝突,這本書實在也是寫得太散瞭。
評分這本書是金融時報評選的2012年度最佳商業圖書,探討瞭美孚對西非中東的地緣政治影響和美國國內能源政策的影響。
評分overview of EM ---看這個是齣於瞭解oil&gas sector的強烈需要。對發展曆程做瞭非常清晰的介紹。比讀年報管用多瞭。Big oil不僅有自己的經營策略 也有自己的一套外交政策,美國政府對他們的影響非常limited 曾在國會山附近見過他們的power broker就在,像禿鷹一樣的神秘人物。那個麵部輪廓真是和路人甲乙丙丁的民眾不一樣。對於big oil的海外項目立項到投産開始運營,至少30年,以前追瞭不少oil&gas方麵的research這本書倒是解瞭很多惑。石油公司和美國政府的關係很微妙的,像是partner之前互相逗悶子,說高級點就是博弈吧。
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