Title
The king of oil : the secret lives of Marc Rich / Daniel Ammann.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780312570743
0312570740
Imprint
New York : St. Martin's Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xii, 302 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HD9570.R53 A55 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
381/.42282092 B
Summary
"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 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. It 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 "--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The undisputed King of Oil
The biggest devil
A Jewish fate
The American dream
The crude awakening
Israel and the Shah
Marc Rich & Company
Trading with the Ayatollah Khomeini
The case
Rudy Giuliani's failures
"I never broke the law"
The hunt for Marc Rich
Clandestine talks
The secrets of success : from Angola to South Africa
Surprising services : how Rich helped Israel and the USA
The private life of the Riches
the end of the King of Oil
The pardon
The future according to Marc Rich
Epilogue : the gray area.
