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The cover is out of the design shop for the new book, due out this fall.Labels: medvedev, oil and glory, Putin, Russia, steve levine
Steve LeVine covers foreign affairs for BusinessWeek. He previously was correspondent for Central Asia and the Caucasus for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for 11 years. Putin’s Labyrinth, his next book, is about the concurrent revival of Russia's global influence, and its unexplained string of high-profile murders. It will be published October 30.
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The cover is out of the design shop for the new book, due out this fall.
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For people who liked Michael Douglas in Wall Street, here is an even more subtle and complex movie script.
Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs
Unlike the genre of journalist travelogues to which the mass market has grown accustomed since at least the mid-1970s, LeVine’s book represents a primary historical source, in some ways unique.
Robert M. Cutler, The Middle East Journal
Chance meetings on planes, Connecticut mansions, CIA debriefings, Caribbean yacht cruises, Gulfstream jets - all these are set pieces in LeVine's account of how, long before it was official policy, Western oilmen "instinctively grasped the essence of détente" with the Evil Empire, and found ways to open it up for business.
Kelly McEvers, San Francisco Chronicle
This is an unforgettable story about forgettable fixers and forgettable governments out for the big bucks.
Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The New Yorker
LeVine brings to life the tycoons, inventors, politicians and crooks of the Caspian.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel prize laureate
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3 Comments:
i have shamelessly promoted it on my blog
When can we preorder? If its anything like TOATG, I will really enjoy it. Off to work now, but I'll post to my blog later today.
Many thanks Candy and Daniel. There's a pre-order page on Amazon now. Here is the link.Best Steve
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