The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power [Paperback]

Deemed the best history of oil ever written byBusiness Weekand with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis.Daniel Yergin is the bestselling author ofThe Prize,The Commanding Heights,Shattered Peace,Russia 2010,andWhat It Means for the World, and coauthor ofEnergy Future. Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a leading international energy consulting firm, he is also global energy expert for the CNBC business news network. Spellbinding...irresistible...monumental...must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history. --The New York Times A masterly narrative...The Prizeportrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies. -- James Schlesinger, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and U.S. Secretary of Energy Splendid and epic history of oil.... The story is brilliantly told...with its remarkable cast of characters. --The Wall Street Journal Impassioned and riveting...only in the great epics of Homer will readers regularly run into a comparable string of larger-than-life swashbucklers and statesmen, heroes and villains. --San Francisco Examiner