The Book – The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
Words: Gentleman's Journal
This is perhaps one of the greatest stories of our time. This book looks at one of the most successful and controversial commodities traders in recent times. It is the first time Marc rich talks about his private life, including everything from his expensive divorce, his invention of the spot oil market, his lucrative and unpublicised dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini’s, Fidel Castro’s Cuba, war-ravaged Angola and apartheid South Africa, also he was accused of being the biggest tax fraudster in US history and not to mention the infamous presidential pardon from Bill Clinton.
Marc Rich until now has been very protective of his family history and from the outside it sounds like a tale of greed and corruption, however that author, Armmann, delves deeper and give us and empathetic look at a man who started life in a family who escaped the Holocaust through their interment in an North African refugee camp, and spent some harsh years as immigrants in the U.S. after WWII.
In summary, it is a book that will leave you deep in thought and Armmann leaves it up to the reader to make their own conclusion, a criminal or a philanthropic businessman? It is definitely a must read that will have you turning each page in anticipation. Available at amazon £8.25 amazon.co.uk
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