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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.272820904
EAN: 9780671799328
ISBN: 0671799320
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 928
Publication Date: January 01, 1993
Publisher: Free Press
Studio: Free Press

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Review:
Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from there, The Prize, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, is a comprehensive history of one of the commodities that powers the world--oil. Founded in the 19th century, the oil industry began producing kerosene for lamps and progressed to gasoline. Huge personal fortunes arose from it, and whole nations sprung out of the power politics of the oil wells. Yergin's fascinating account sweeps from early robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, to the oil crisis of the 1970s, through to the Gulf War.

Product Description:


Pulitzer Prize Winner -- and Now an Epic PBS Series

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. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.




Rating: - A Must to Read!
This book was published in 1992 so it doesn't contain information beyond the Bush presidency and into the 21st Century. What it contains is the history of the use of oil as a means of energy and light. While Oil does appear in the background of many history textbooks, its history is ignored even as it gradually takes over the lives of most on the planet Earth. This book covers the period in which oil is discovered to be a better source of light than whale oil and cheap enough to be used by the ... Read More

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Rating: - The History of Oil!
This is the standard. Michael Yergin, now the CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, in 1991 wrote this tomb which is the defacto standard text and reference for anyone interested in reading about the history of oil.

This is a meticulously researched book which chronicles the rise of oil from Pennsylvania through the present. Yergin weaves a comprehensive chronological narrative of how the modern oil industry came into existence. This work from Michael Yergin won the Pulitzer ... Read More

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Rating: - An Overwrought Encyclopedia
The first 200 pages of "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" are compelling and fascinating because they are about the compelling and fascinating characters who created the modern oil industry. There is, of course, John D. Rockefeller whose organizational genius permitted the rise of Standard Oil, the antecedent of today's Exxon-Mobil. Then there is the hopelessly disorganized but very lucky British merchant Marcus Samuel who founded Shell, and the meticulous and disciplined Dutchman ... Read More

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Rating: - the truth behind gas prices
Very informative. If legislators would have read this book back in 1992 we would be energy independent today. Oil is used as a weapon against America, the free World and it's citizens. Even the "Big 5" oil companies (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP Arco, Chevron, Conoco Phillips)who operate in America and import oil from the Middle East are putting America and Americans at risk. As the author of, The Truth Behind Gas Prices, I say it is time to get energy independent. The Prize will not tell you how ... Read More

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Rating: - The Necessary Political and Economic Lubricant
The recent and tumultuous situation with petroleum pricing, coupled with the obviously baleful effects on the environment of hydrocarbon fuels, combined with rising demands, diminishing supplies, economic turmoil in the world economy and sourcing from the ever-unstable Middle East prompted me to re-read Daniel Yergin's masterpiece, "The Prize".

While everyone has an opinion on petroleum pricing and usage, ranging from simple-minded conspiracy theories to empirical invocations of "market economies", ... Read More

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