Emanuel Nobel: Black Gold, Broken Empire

About this book

What if the most powerful businessman in history was deliberately deleted from the history books? Not forgotten. Not overlooked. Deleted. That is exactly what happened to Emanuel Nobel. And this is the book that finally sets the record straight. At his peak, Emanuel Nobel ran an oil empire bigger than Standard Oil. He outproduced John D. Rockefeller at the absolute height of Rockefeller's power. He commanded the world's largest private tanker fleet. He licensed the diesel engine before anyone else saw its potential and helped turn it into the technology that powers ninety percent of global trade today. He built profit sharing, free housing, free schools, and free hospitals for his workers decades before any government made any of it mandatory. He was, by every measurable standard, one of the greatest industrial leaders who ever lived. Then the Bolsheviks took everything. And spent the next seventy years making sure nobody would ever know his name. Statues torn down. Factories renamed.