Vultures' Picnic

It's a genuinely life-changing book - funny, pacy, intelligent and ultimately very moving. If you want to know how the world really works, read this. Informationen zum Autor Author of the New York Times and international bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse , Palast is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde. "A cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes" (Jim Hightower, The Nation), Greg Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. Palast's reports appear on BBC's Newsnight and in Britain's Guardian , Rolling Stone and Harper's . Palast directed the US' government's largest racketeering case in history (that garnered a $4.3 billion jury award) and the investigation of the Exxon Valdez. Palast is recipient of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Prize for his BBC television documentary, Bush Family Fortunes . A hard-hitting expose of the oil and finance industry from the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and "Armed Madhouse". This is the story of of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin the planet in the process. 'Palast's stories bite back. They're so relevant they threaten to alter history. Palast is exactly what a journalist is supposed to be - a truth hound, doggedly independent, undaunted by power' "Chicago Tribune" Vulture's Picnic is Greg Palast's hard hitting expose of the oil industry, the banking industry, and the government agencies that aren't regulating either Zusammenfassung Vulture's Picnic is Greg Palast's hard hitting expose of the oil industry, the banking industry, and the government agencies that aren't regulating either

Product details

• Authors: Greg Palast, Palast Greg
• Publisher: Constable
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.04.2012
• EAN: 9781780336510
• ISBN: 978-1-78033-651-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Petroleum, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Service, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, Pollution & threats to the environment, Politics and government, Pollution and threats to the environment, Financial services industry, Hospitality and service industries, Petroleum & oil industries, Petroleum, oil and gas industries, Energy industries and utilities, Finance and the finance industry