The Quest Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World [Paperback]

This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change

A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book,The Prize. InThe Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them.

The Questtells the inside stories, tackles the tough questions, and reveals surprising  insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas. He explains how climate change became a great issue and leads readers through the rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. Epic in scope and never more timely,The Questvividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.“Mr. Yergin is back with a sequel toThe Prize. It is calledThe Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, and, if anything, it’s an even better book. It is searching, impartial and alarmingly up to date…The Questwill be necessary reading for C.E.O.’s, conservationists, lawmakers, generals, spies, tech geeks, thriller writers, ambitious terrorists and many others…The Questis encyclopedic in its ambitions; it resists easy synopsis.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES (Dwight Garner)

“A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes...The tale is generously sprinkled with facts debunking common misperceptions, and Mr. Yergin sagely analyzes how well the energy industry really works.”—THE WALL STREET JOURNlc(