Robert Page

Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America, William Freudenburg and Robert Gramling, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2010, 240 pages.

ON APRIL 20, 2010, BP's Macondo well blew out in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Like a TV sitcom, the most infamous oil spill in American history went on and on and on. Millions of viewers the world over were "entertained" for months as the unchecked flow soaked pelicans and fouled beaches from Florida to Texas.