Description of Echoes of Ilium America seems to have a fascination with the oil industry, but our idea of it is formed by newspaper headlines and TV shows. This book doesn't deny the existence of families like the one that populates the series Dallas, nor does it try to deny attention grabbing accidents like the Exxon Valdez or the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But it does make the point that all the people involved aren't rich, spoiled money-grubbers who mindlessly despoil the planet. This is a book about the oilfield, the real oilfield, and the men who ply the dangerous and difficult...