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Free Press, December 2008
Trade Paperback, 928 pages
ISBN-10: 1439110123
ISBN-13: 9781439110126
Awards and Nominations
- Pulitzer Prize
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Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and 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.
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"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 Prize portrays 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
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 5, 2011
...gas will go the way of the steam engine in the next 20 years. Not so fast, says Daniel Yergin, author and one of the most influential voices in the world of energy. "There is always the possibility that something big will happen very ...
Kenya Star, October 4, 2011
...(Source: Foreign Policy) Daniel Yergin's latest book, The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World would have been essential reading for energy industry insiders simply as a consequence of Yergin ...
Foreign Policy Magazine, October 4, 2011
...Daniel Yergin's latest book, The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World would have been essential reading for energy industry insiders simply as a consequence of Yergin ...
IHS, October 3, 2011
...Dateline City: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. IHS CERA Chairman Daniel Yergin’s new book, The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World, will debut at number four on the New York Times Bestseller List for nonfiction ...
Car Talk, October 1, 2011
...American oil started here (in Pennsylvania) but production peaked around 1969. (Flickr/OZinOH) Daniel Yergin of the Boston-area Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) is probably the world’s most respected authority on oil. In ...
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 26, 2011
...Daniel Yergin, one of the most influential voices in the world of energy, says shale gas is here to stay. "Shale gas has come on really fast," Yergin, an author ...
Houston Business Journal, September 23, 2011
...and the concept is getting some attention again lately, just like it does every few years or so. Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, oil historian and chief of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, recently took to the ...
Technology Review, September 22, 2011
...The timing of Daniel Yergin's new book, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, could hardly be better. With oil prices remaining high, with new sources of natural gas ...
Climate Action, September 21, 2011
...| Alan Bouquet , North America Daniel Yergin, famous for his book on the history of oil, The Prize, has just released his latest book, The Quest, which looks at all forms of energy. It reaches the ...
IHS, September 20, 2011
...New book by IHS CERA chairman and winner of the Pulitzer Prize charts energy and its future Category: Energy & Power, Energy & Power Media Dateline: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. EmailPDFPrintRSSShareThis "The combination of government support, ...
Yahoo!Xtra, September 20, 2011
...Follows Pulitzer winner Daniel Yergin's "The Prize"Yergin touts broad diversification of energy sourcesSupports shale drilling; explores wind and solar powerBy Andrea BurzynskiNEW YORK, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Every U.S. president since Nixon ...
WNIJ, September 20, 2011
...Daniel Yergin is the author behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power. In his new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and energy expert ...
Energy Bulletin, September 19, 2011
...require Russian permission to build military bases within Moscow's traditional sphere of influence. So begins oil historian Daniel Yergin's much-awaited new book, the sequel to The Prize, the standard work on the industry. I reviewed The ...
Peak Oil, September 18, 2011
...Daniel Yergin’s letter to the peak oil community, and a rebuttal Daniel Yergin, Wall Street Journal For decades, advocates of ‘peak oil’ have been predicting a crisis in energy supplies ...
Noozhawk.com, September 16, 2011
...The Pulitzer Prize winner will discuss the world's energy trends on Oct. 12 at Campbell Hall By Karna Hughes for UCSB Arts & Lectures | Published on 09.16.2011 Daniel Yergin ...
IHS, April 5, 2011
...is urgent and important, and there is no faster way to deliver it into the hands of readers." Daniel Yergin’s definitive history of the oil industry, the 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & ...
Peak Oil, January 4, 2010
...subject, prime material for writers and historians with an eye on the underlying themes of the recent past. Daniel Yergin's The Prize set the standard almost 20 years ago and the author has updated his seminal story to account for the boom ...
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