Edwin Black

"Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives"

Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006
7 p.m.
OSU Hillel
46 E. 16th Ave., Columbus, OH

Co-sponsored by OSU Hillel and the Columbus Jewish Federation.

Edwin Black is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling investigative author of six bestselling books, as well as scores of newspaper and magazine articles in the leading publications of the United States, Europe and Israel.

Black's work focuses on genocide and hate, corporate criminality and corruption, governmental misconduct, academic fraud, philanthropy abuse, and historical investigation. He has been interviewed on hundreds of network broadcasts including Oprah, the Today Show, CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports and NBC's Dateline.

Black's most recent book, Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives (St. Martin's, 2006), is the compelling tale of corruption and manipulation that subjected the United States and the world to an oil addiction that could have been avoided and could be ended today.

Black is also author of IBM and the Holocaust (Crown, 2001), The Transfer Agreement (Macmillan, 1984 and Carroll-Graff, 2001), War Against the Weak (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003), Banking on Baghdad (John Wiley & Son, 2004), and a novel, Format C (Dialog, 1999).

Edwin Black
Investigative author