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Great American Outpost - Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier (Hardcover)
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Great American Outpost - Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier (Hardcover)
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The word was that you could earn $17,000 a month in the Bakken
Oilfield of North Dakota. So they flooded in: the profiteers,
deadbeats, ex-cons, dreamers, and doers. And so too did Maya Rao, a
journalist who embedded herself in the surreal new American
frontier. With an eye for the dark, humorous, and absurd, Rao set
out in steel-toed boots to chronicle the largest oil boom since the
1968 discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Businessmen turned up
to restart their careers after bankruptcy or fraud allegations from
the financial crisis. An ex-con found his niche as a YouTube
celebrity exposing the underside of oilfield life. A high-rolling
Englishman blew investors' money on $400 shots of cognac as
authorities started to catch on that his housing developments were
part of a worldwide Ponzi scheme. Part Barbara Ehrenreich, part
Upton Sinclair, this is an on-the-ground narrative of capitalism
and industrialization as a rural, insular community transformed
into a colony of outsiders hustling for profit-a sobering
exploration of twenty-first century America that reads like a
frontier novel.
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