by Daniel Yergin · Simon & Shuster · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780671710897
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«The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power» is Daniel Yergin's historical essay in hardback (912 pages, in English).
The book reconstructs the history of oil from the first oil well in the 1850s to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, presenting that race as a struggle of greed and ingenuity for control of crude, key to global economic, military and political dominance.
Pulitzer Prize-winning work; revised and updated edition of an international bestseller.
For readers of history, economics and international politics, with an interest in the oil industry and the twentieth century.
Daniel Howard Yergin is an American author, economic historian, and consultant within the energy and economic sectors. Yergin is vice chairman of S&P Global. He was formerly vice chairman of IHS Markit, which merged with S&P in 2022. He founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates, which IHS Markit acquired in 2004. He has authored or co-authored several books on energy and world economics, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, (1991) The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (2011), and The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (2020).
