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The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich

Name: The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
SKU: 9780312650681
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Contributors:

Daniel Ammann

Publisher:

St. Martin's Griffin

Release Date:

2010-11-09

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics

Book Subcategory:

Business, Entrepreneurship

ISBN 13:

9780312650681

Weight:

0.79 lbs

Size:

9.24 x 6.08 x 0.81 inches

Pages:

336

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Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market, which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, Fidel Castro's Cuba, war-ravaged Angola, and apartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation with the Israeli and U.S. governments (even after he was indicted for tax fraud by Rudy Guiliani) and near-comical attempts by U.S. officials to kidnap him illegally.

This sure-to-make-headlines book from Daniel Ammann is the first no-holds-barred biography of Rich, who was famously pardoned by Bill Clinton, and resurfaced in the news during the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Eric Holder. The King of Oil sheds stunning new light on one of the most controversial international businessmen of all time, charting Rich's rise from the Holocaust, which he fled as a young boy, to become the wealthiest and most powerful oil and commodities trader of the century. From his earliest trading days to the present, Marc Rich's story is astonishing and compelling.

About the Author

Daniel Ammann is business editor of the highly regarded Swiss weekly "Die Weltwoche". He was educated at Zurich University, UC Berkeley and Fondation Postuniversitaire Internationale in Paris. In 2007 he won the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism.

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