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Oneworld has acquired a title it is billing the first-ever exposé of the 1976 oil crisis.
UK and Commonwealth rights to The Oil Kings by Andrew Scott Cooper were acquired by publisher Juliet Mabey from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein for an undisclosed sum.
The title examines how an oil crisis was secretly engineered by American economist Alan Greenspan, Donald Rumsfeld and President Ford. Cooper gained access to previously classified documents and interviewed former top US and Iranian officials for the book.
Mabey said: “We’re thrilled to have The Oil Kings on our 2011 list. Andrew has interviewed many of the key players and seen documents which have been hidden for some time. He brilliantly pieces together the secret events which led, eventually, to the global oil crisis and the 1979 Iranian revolution. What he’s uncovered is truly shocking”.
Cooper is a PhD candidate in US foreign policy and has previously worked for the United Nations and Human Rights Watch in New York.