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how this show works Doug brudd sits in that chair right there that he's sitting in today he

fixes you a cocktail and spends an hour talking with writers about their work, their process, and the books that made them.

Today, we are flipping the script because Doug has a new book out, and it's my turn to ask the questions.

He is a New York Times best-selling author whose work spans fiction and narrative nonfiction.

His novels include Ghosts of Manhattan, The Means and Trophy's son, and his nonfiction debut. The Mysterious

Case of Rudolph Diesel was a New York Times bestseller. His new book is the second work of his

second work of nonfiction, and it is called the Lost Empire of Emmanuel

Nobel, Romanov's revolutionaries, and the forgotten titan who fueled the world. It's the story

of Emmanuel Nobel, who, along with his family, built the Russian petroleum industry into an

operation that at its peak surpassed even Rockefeller

Standard Oil and whose name has been almost entirely erased from history. Working in those same

oil fields at the same time was a young Georgian revolutionary named, you guessed it, Joseph Stalin,

and it's the story of what happens when those two worlds collide.

It's the engine of this book, which is a gripping, fast-moving piece of narrative history.

And I'm glad that we will have the chance to dig into it today.

And I am Elliot Ackerman, novelist, journalist, and when I am with Doug Day Drinker. So once again, welcome to Dedicated. And Doug, welcome to your own show. Elliot, this is awesome. Thank you so much for doing this. And critical in my thinking to who could come in and host this was it has to be someone who knows how to make a great drink. And having spent some time with you, I know you are that man. Okay, so I'm sure here.

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