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The article focuses on books on crude oil. It mentions about several books on crude oil including, "The Oil and the Glory," (Random House, 2007) by Steve LeVine, "Absurdistan," (Random House, 2006) by Gary Shteyngart and "The Hydrogen Age," (Gibbs Smith, 2007) by Geoffery B. Holland. David Sandalow's "Freedom From Oil," (McGraw Hill, 2007) offers a, fun-ish civics workbook containing a series of memos to the next U.S. president and a State of the Union speech touting electric cars, ethanol, and a carbon tax with kickbacks for working families. It also mentions about the Oscar-nominated film, "There Will Be Blood," starring Daniel Day-Lewis as an oilman.