Greg Palast

Vultures' Picnic

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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

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78033-651-0
EAN: 9781780336510
Produktnummer: 12094129
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 464 S.
Masse: H19.5 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.8 cm 386 g
Gewicht: 386
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den 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.