by Daniel Yergin (Author)
"The Prize" recounts the panoramic history of oil - and the struggle for wealth and 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 history is enormous - from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqui invastion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 928
Edition: 1st Free Press Trade Pbk. Ed
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Published: 01 Jan 1993
ISBN 10: 0671799320
ISBN 13: 9780671799328
Prizes: Winner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 1992.
Splendid and epic...brilliantly told.
Pure narrative history, spun out as a tremendously exciting epic covering nearly six generations.
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.
former U.S. Secretary of Defense and U.S. Secretary of Energy
A masterly narrative... The Prize portrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies.
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