The Prize
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource: oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for over a century and continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations. The Prize proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the modern era by capturing the great economic and political clashes over precious “black gold.”
The canvas of this narrative history is enormous—from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, the Iraq war and climate change. The definitive work on the subject of oil, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement, and great value—crucial to our understanding of world politics and the global economy today and tomorrow.
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“Spellbinding…irresistible…monumental…must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history.”
“Splendid and epic history of oil…The story is brilliantly told…with its remarkable cast of characters.”
“Yergin has not written the history of oil but the history of the world from the point of view of oil. And he has written it very well….He marveled at his discoveries and, thanks to his great literary gifts, he is able to make us marvel as well.”
“A magnificent epic.”