{"product_id":"9781529154665","title":"Embargo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe 1970s history that explains the 2020s world: \u003ci\u003eEmbargo \u003c\/i\u003etells the thrilling inside story of the world's first great energy crisis, and how it remade the world economy.\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Jaw-dropping' \u003c\/b\u003eRORY STEWART, author of \u003ci\u003ePolitics on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterpiece' \u003c\/b\u003eSEBASTIAN MALLABY, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Power Law\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A thriller' \u003c\/b\u003eBRADLEY HOPE, co-author of \u003ci\u003eBillion Dollar Whale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Extraordinary' \u003c\/b\u003eLYSE DOUCET, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Finest Hotel in Kabul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA must-read' \u003c\/b\u003eJAVIER BLAS, co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe World for Sale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A ripping yarn' \u003c\/b\u003eRANA FOROOHAR, author of \u003ci\u003eSea Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Totally absorbing' \u003c\/b\u003eJAMES BARR, author of \u003ci\u003eA Line in the Sand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A rollicking read' \u003c\/b\u003eSCOTT ANDERSON, author of \u003ci\u003eKing of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Essential reading' \u003c\/b\u003eED CONWAY, author of \u003ci\u003eMaterial World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe have been here before.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe king of Saudi Arabia had warned the Americans repeatedly: if you do not treat us with respect, we will cut off your oil. For years, nobody believed him. In October 1973, he made good on his threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe consequences were immediate. As energy shortages and blackouts spread through Western capitals, the world's most powerful economies discovered that their prosperity rested on decisions being made in Riyadh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmbargo \u003c\/i\u003eis the gripping inside story of the 1973 oil crisis and the small group of leaders who shaped it. It is the story of Faisal, the Saudi King who was born a nomad and became the richest man in the world. Of Ahmed Zaki Yamani, his unflappable Harvard-educated oil minister who drove American oil executives to tears with his steely calm. And of Henry Kissinger, the US statesman who failed to grasp how much leverage the Middle East had acquired over the West until it was too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled with frantic diplomacy and secret negotiations, \u003ci\u003eEmbargo \u003c\/i\u003efollows the race to avert economic catastrophe and restore the flow of oil. In the process, it uncovers a turning point in modern history: the moment the industrialised world discovered how vulnerable its prosperity was to turmoil in the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMore than fifty years later, we are still wrangling with the consequences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Philip Delves Broughton has turned the birth of the modern petro-state into a thriller . . . \u003ci\u003eEmbargo \u003c\/i\u003eis the book that explains how the world we live in was actually made.' \u003c\/b\u003eBRADLEY HOPE, co-author of \u003ci\u003eBillion Dollar Whale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Both an illuminating account of the 1973 oil crisis and an extraordinary echo of the current one.' \u003c\/b\u003eLYSE DOUCET, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Finest Hotel in Kabul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A must-read to understand not just the 1973 oil crisis, but every energy shock that has followed since.' \u003c\/b\u003eJAVIER BLAS, co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe World for Sale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A fascinating education into how the global oil industry really works - and a rollicking good time.'\u003c\/b\u003e SCOTT ANDERSON, author of \u003ci\u003eKing of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Marvellous . . . Even if we weren't once again wrestling with oil crises, I would have enthusiastically recommended \u003ci\u003eEmbargo\u003c\/i\u003e. Since we are, this is essential reading.'\u003c\/b\u003e ED CONWAY, author of \u003ci\u003eMaterial World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hutchinson Heinemann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57693894607221,"sku":"9781529154665","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781529154665.jpg?v=1793027345","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781529154665","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}