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Peter Foster (1)

Author of The blue-eyed sheiks: The Canadian oil establishment

For other authors named Peter Foster, see the disambiguation page.

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Works by Peter Foster

The blue-eyed sheiks: The Canadian oil establishment (1979) 38 copies

Other people's money: The banks, the government, and Dome (1983) 19 copies

Towers of Debt: The Rise and Fall of the Reichmanns/the Olympia & York Story (1993) 16 copies, 1 review

Sorcerer's Apprentices: Canada's Super Bureaucrats and the Energy Mess (1982) 13 copies

Why We Bite the Invisible Hand: The Psychology of Anti-Capitalism (2014) 13 copies

Master Builders: How the Reichmanns Reached for an Empire. (1986) 11 copies

Family Spirits: The Bacardi Saga: Rum, Riches and Revolution (1990) 9 copies

From rigs to riches; the story of Bow Valley Industries Ltd. (1985) 2 copies

How Dare You! (2020) 2 copies

Self-serve : how Petro-Canada pumped Canadians dry (1992) 2 copies

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20th century (2) 338.2 (1) biography (3) Bow Valley Industries Ltd. (1) Box 12 (1) business (5) Canada (15) Canadian economics (2) Canadian History (2) Canadian oil business (2) climate change (1) creative nonfiction (1) economics (2) energy industries (2) energy policy (3) environmentalism (1) global warming (1) history (5) journalism (1) non-fiction (4) oil (2) oil business (2) oil industry (3) Petroleum industry and trade (6) Petroleum Politics (2) political left (1) politics (4) property (2) Reichmann family (2) to-read (3)

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Gender: male
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Places of residence: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Towers of debt : the rise and fall of the Reichmanns by Peter Foster

Olympia & York (Subject); Reichmann family (Subject)

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Works: 10
Members: 125
Popularity: #160,150
Rating: 3.0

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 41

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Profile - The Writers' Union of Canada

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