PositiveNPRLike jet travel itself, the tour is sometimes disorienting. You go to bed reading a chapter about Jeddah and wake up to find yourself in Delhi. But Vanhoenacker is a sure-handed navigator, filling in the gaps with history, poetry, and lots of local color ... While he might lack the kind of insider\'s knowledge that comes from spending a lifetime in a city, Vanhoenacker has the benefit of making short but frequent visits to lots of places, with a pocketful of foreign currencies and a backpack brimming with curiosity.
Christopher Leonard
PositiveNPRWhat Kochland...adds to the story is not so much an account of the ways in which the brothers spend their money, but rather, a richly reported tale of how they make it—the inner workings of one of the nation\'s largest private corporations ... Leonard is able to tell this story with an insider\'s vantage point ... The prose is occasionally over the top. Do we really need to know about the white marble slabs between urinals in the men\'s room of a Senate office building? But for the most part, this is fast-paced business history. An episode about ammonia runoff at an oil refinery keeps you turning pages like a John Grisham thriller.
