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The Prize

The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

By: Daniel Yergin

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Paperback | 19 January 2009

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928 Pages

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15.5 x 23.2 x 4.4

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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.

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 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.

Industry Reviews

"The Wall Street Journal"

Splendid and epic...brilliantly told.

"The Boston Sunday Globe"

Pure narrative history, spun out as a tremendously exciting epic covering nearly six generations.

"San Francisco Examiner"

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.

James Schlesinger

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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