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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter Maass, who lives in New York City, is a contributing writer to the
New York Times Magazine
. He has written as well for the
Washington Post, The New Yorker
, the
New Republic
, the
Atlantic Monthly
and
Slate
, and has reported from the Middle East, Asia, South America and Africa. He is the author of
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
, which won book prizes from the Overseas Press Club and the
Los Angeles Times
.

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2009 by Peter Maass

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Portions of this work are based on pieces that originally appeared in
The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, The New Republic
, and
Outside
.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Maass, Peter.
Crude world : the violent twilight of oil / Peter Maass.—1st ed.
p. cm.
“This is a Borzoi book.”
eISBN: 978-0-307-27319-2
1. Petroleum industry and trade—History. I. Title.
HD9560.5.M23 2009
338.2′7282—dc22      2009012303