by Daniel Yergin · Simon & Schuster Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780671799328
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«The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power» is the historical essay by Daniel Yergin, published by Simon & Schuster Ltd in paperback (928 pages).
Yergin narrates the history of oil from the first drilling in Pennsylvania to the invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War, explaining how the struggle for crude has driven the world economy, wars and the fate of nations. Yergin combines business, politics and technology, with figures such as tycoons, Churchill and Saddam Hussein.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1992 and the Eccles Prize the same year. The edition includes bibliographic references and an index.
For readers interested in twentieth-century history, economics and the geopolitics of energy.
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).
