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."
Winner of The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of
the Year Award
A 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
One of "Financial Times"' Best Books of 2012
"ExxonMobil has met its match in Coll, an elegant writer and dogged
reporter... extraordinary... monumental."
--"The Washington Post"
"Fascinating... "Private Empire" is a book meticulously prepared as
if for trial, a lawyerly accumulation of information that lets the
facts speak for themselves... a compelling and elucidatory
work."
--"Bloomberg"
""Private Empire "is meticulous, multi-angled and valuable... Mr.
Coll's prose sweeps the earth like an Imax camera."
--Dwight Garner, "The New York Times"
"ExxonMobil has cut a ruthless path through the Age of Oil. Yet
intense secrecy has kept one of the world's largest companies a
mystery, until now. "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power"
is a masterful study of Big Oil's biggest player... Coll's in-depth
reporting, buttressed by his anecdotal prose, make Private Empire a
must-read. Consider "Private Empire" a sequel of sorts to "The
Prize", Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer-winning history of the oil
industry... Coll's portrait of ExxonMobil is both riveting and
appalling... Yet "Private Empire" is not so much an indictment as a
fascinating look into American business and politics. With each
chapter as forceful as a "New Yorker "article, the book abounds in
Dickensian characters."
--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Coll makes clear in his magisterial account that Exxon is mighty
almost beyond imagining, producing more profit than any American
company in the history of profit, the ultimate corporation in 'an
era of corporate ascendancy.' This history of its last two decades
is therefore a revealing history of our time, a chronicle of the
intersection between energy and politics."
--Bill McKibben, "New York Review of Books"
"ExxonMobil has met its match in Coll, an elegant writer and dogged
reporter... extraordinary... monumental." --THE WASHINGTON POST
"Fascinating... "Private Empire" is a book meticulously prepared as
if for trial, a lawyerly accumulation of information that lets the
facts speak for themselves... a compelling and elucidatory work."
--BLOOMBERG
"Private Empire is meticulous, multi-angled and valuable... Mr.
Coll's prose sweeps the earth like an Imax camera."
-- Dwight Garner, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"ExxonMobil has cut a ruthless path through the Age of Oil. Yet
intense secrecy has kept one of the world's largest companies a
mystery, until now. "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power"
is a masterful study of Big Oil's biggest player... Coll's in-depth
reporting, buttressed by his anecdotal prose, make Private Empire a
must-read. Consider "Private Empire" a sequel of sorts to "The
Prize", Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer-winning history of the oil
industry... Coll's portrait of ExxonMobil is both riveting and
appalling... Yet "Private Empire" is not so much an indictment as a
fascinating look into American business and politics. With each
chapter as forceful as a New Yorker article, the book abounds in
Dickensian characters."
-- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Coll makes clear in his magisterial account that Exxon is mighty
almost beyond imagining, producing more profit than any American
company in the history of profit, the ultimate corporation in 'an
era of corporate ascendancy.' This history of its last two decades
is therefore a revealing history of our time, a chronicle of the
intersection between energy and politics."
--Bill McKibben, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
"Coll makes clear in his magisterial account that Exxon is mighty
almost beyond imagining, producing more profit than any American
company in the history of profit, the ultimate corporation in 'an
era of corporate ascendancy.' This history of its last two decades
is therefore a revealing history of our time, a chronicle of the
intersection between energy and politics."
--Bill McKibben, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Groundbreaking... Masterful as a corporate portrait, "Private
Empire" gushes with narrative.
--AMERICAN PROSPECT
""Private Empire" is meticulous, multi-angled and valuable... It's
among this book's achievements that it attempts to view a
dysfunctional energy world, as often as not, through Exxon Mobil's
eyes... Mr. Coll's prose sweeps the earth like an Imax camera."
--Dwight Garner, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"ExxonMobil has cut a ruthless path through the Age of Oil. Yet
intense secrecy has kept one of the world's largest companies a
mystery, until now. "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
"is a masterful study of Big Oil's biggest player... Coll's
in-depth reporting, buttressed by his anecdotal prose, make
"Private Empire"a must-read. Consider "Private Empire"a sequel of
sorts to "The Prize", Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer-winning history of
the oil industry... Coll's portrait of ExxonMobil is both riveting
and appalling... Yet "Private Empire" is not so much an indictment
as a fascinating look into American business and politics. With
each chapter as forceful as a New Yorker article, the book abounds
in Dickensian characters."
--SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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