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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

Daniel Yergin

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#174 of 3,809 books · #57 in History

Won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1992). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
ISBN-13
9781471104756
Genre
History
Topics
Oil industryGeopoliticsGlobal economic power

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