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Hardcover Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia Book
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ISBN: 1620973774

ISBN13: 9781620973776

Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

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An ambitious and shocking expos of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow

In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world's automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent of the world's rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation's explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum,...

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