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Great American outpost : dreamers, mavericks, and ... Read More

Rao, Maya,(author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781610396462
  • ISBN: 1610396464
  • Physical Description: vii, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2018.

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The advancement of man. Introduction -- I should ... Read More
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50500. ‡gThe advancement of man. ‡tIntroduction -- ‡tI should be dead -- ‡tTales at the water depot -- ‡tBeyond the eyes of Roosevelt -- ‡tThe wild bison -- ‡tWilliston Brewing Company -- ‡tGreat American scam -- ‡tStreetlights -- ‡tA fugitive at the border -- ‡tEdge of the world -- ‡gFree market rhapsody. ‡tThe sheer emptiness of it -- ‡tNobody lives here -- ‡tEvolution -- ‡tEmpire of junk -- ‡tRight-minded people -- ‡tCapitalism is legal -- ‡tA great steaming pile of money -- ‡tBallad of La Bruta -- ‡gOf riches and reality. ‡tThe dinner party -- ‡tPeyton Place on the plains -- ‡tDeal junkies -- ‡tGoing to war -- ‡tThe derrick goes sideways -- ‡t$100 oil to $1 beer -- ‡tNat Geo's in town -- ‡tFracking hell -- ‡gTrials of civilization. ‡tWasteland -- ‡tThe perils at twenty feet -- Pipelining blues -- ‡tYou chose oil over us -- ‡tExodus -- ‡tBile of the subterranean -- ‡tFrigid despair -- ‡tThis is your treasure.
520 . ‡a"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism. As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals. With an eye for the dark, absurd, and humorous, Rao fearlessly immersed herself in their world to chronicle this modern-day gold rush, from its heady beginnings to OPEC's price war against the US oil industry. She rode shotgun with a surfer-turned-truck driver braving toxic fumes and dangerous roads, dined with businessmen disgraced during the financial crisis, and reported on everyone in between-including an ex-con YouTube celebrity, a trophy wife mired in scandal, and a hard-drinking British Ponzi schemer-in a social scene so rife with intrigue that one investor called the oilfield Peyton Place on steroids. As the boom receded, a culture of greed and recklessness left troubling consequences for investors and longtime residents. Empty trailers and idle oil equipment littered the fields like abandoned farmsteads, leaving the pioneers who built this unlikely civilization to reckon with their legacy. Part Barbara Ehrenreich, part Upton Sinclair, Great American Outpost is a sobering exploration of twenty-first-century America that reads like a frontier novel."--Inside jacket flap.
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