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- catalog abstract ""Here is the tale of what the U.S. State Department once called "the most valuable commercial prize in the history of the planet," the vast oil reserves beneath the sands of the Arabian desert. Using Aramco files never before available to scholars or journalists, dozens of personal interviews and U.S., British, and Saudi Arabian documents, Anthony Cave Brown recounts the unceasing diplomatic and corporate maneuvers aimed at obtaining - and then exploiting this unimaginable wealth. The ongoing drama involved such figures as the great Warrior-king Ibn Saud, founder of the Saudi dynasty; H St John Philby, the British scholar-adventurer who was a chief adviser to the king; the American philanthropist Charles Crane; Winston Churchill; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis; and oil industry executives such as Floyd Ohliger, Fred Davies and Frank Jungers, whose toughness and energy reflected the best in the great tradition of American industrial capitalism. Played out against a background of war and the turmoil of an ancient culture thrust abruptly into the twentieth century, the struggle to control the flow of Saudi oil was won by the United States, which emerged as the dominant Western power in the Middle East."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11088419.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Here is the tale of what the U.S. State Department once called "the most valuable commercial prize in the history of the planet," the vast oil reserves beneath the sands of the Arabian desert. Using Aramco files never before available to scholars or journalists, dozens of personal interviews and U.S., British, and Saudi Arabian documents, Anthony Cave Brown recounts the unceasing diplomatic and corporate maneuvers aimed at obtaining - and then exploiting this unimaginable wealth. The ongoing drama involved such figures as the great Warrior-king Ibn Saud, founder of the Saudi dynasty; H St John Philby, the British scholar-adventurer who was a chief adviser to the king; the American philanthropist Charles Crane; Winston Churchill; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis; and oil industry executives such as Floyd Ohliger, Fred Davies and Frank Jungers, whose toughness and energy reflected the best in the great tradition of American industrial capitalism. Played out against a background of war and the turmoil of an ancient culture thrust abruptly into the twentieth century, the struggle to control the flow of Saudi oil was won by the United States, which emerged as the dominant Western power in the Middle East."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [374]-402) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 420 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Oil, God, and gold.".
- catalog identifier "0395592208".
- catalog isFormatOf "Oil, God, and gold.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
- catalog relation "Oil, God, and gold.".
- catalog spatial "Saudi Arabia.".
- catalog subject "338.7/6223382/09538 21".
- catalog subject "Arabian American Oil Company.".
- catalog subject "HD9576.S33 B76 1999".
- catalog subject "Petroleum industry and trade Saudi Arabia.".
- catalog title "Oil, God, and gold : the story of Aramco and the Saudi kings / Anthony Cave Brown.".
- catalog type "text".