Private Empire

Magisterial … a revealing history of our time – Bill McKibben * New York Review of Books *Meticulously researched and elegantly written, it is likely to be the definitive work on its subject for many years to come. Steve Coll … is honest about Exxon’s strengths as well as its flaws, and presents both sides of the arguments with scrupulous even-handedness … At every stop there are vivid anecdotes, sharp insights and telling details – Ed Crooks * Financial Times *Masterful … Coll’s in-depth reporting, buttressed by his anecdotal prose, make Private Empire a must-read … [His] 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 * San Francisco Chronicle *Meticulous, multi-angled and valuable … Coll’s prose sweeps the earth like an Imax camera – Dwight Garner * New York Times *A thorough, sobering study of the pernicious consolidation of Big Oil … jaw-dropping reading * Kirkus Reviews *

Steve Coll is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens. He is president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a staff writer for The New Yorker. He won a Pulitzer prize for explanatory journalism while working at the Washingon Post. He is the author of six other books, including the bestseller Ghost Wars, which won him a second Pulitzer prize. He lives in Washington and New York.