by Daniel Yergin (Author)
The struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades continues to shake the world economy, dictate the outcome of wars, and transform the destiny of men and nations. The Prizeis 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.
The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prizeis a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 928
Edition: Reissue
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 19 Jan 2009
ISBN 10: 1847376460
ISBN 13: 9781847376466
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.