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Queen of the Oil Club
The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information
Beacon Press
How one woman hurdled journalism’s gender barrier to help shape the future of Big Oil… Intimate but also sweeping, capturing the myopia of both business and government as America’s addiction to foreign oil set in over four decades.
— Kirkus Reviews
From the Iraq war, to rising oil prices, debates over global warming, and movies like An Inconvenient Truth, it’s hard to avoid thinking about the importance of oil and the oil industry. To put it all in context, it helps to look back to the birth of the industry when an informal club of engineers, geologists and accountants managed the international oil world.
Into that club stepped Wanda Jablonski, a Slovakian-born American journalist, who wielded extraordinary influence over the 20th century’s wealthiest industry. Queen of the Oil Club introduces the woman whom Daniel Yergin has compared to muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell, calling her one of the two great women journalists of the 20th century who “had a far-reaching impact on the world oil industry.” Jablonski shed light on the deeply secret world of the international oil trade and her story and her incomparable access to the story behind the rise of OPEC lets us in on the real dynamics of oil politics at a time when that kind of understanding couldn’t be more important.
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Anna Rubino is a historian and journalist with a special interest in the oil industry.
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