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The Prize; The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
by Yergin, Daniel
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0671502484
- ISBN 13
- 9780671502485
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 24 cm, 877, [1], xxxii, [2] pages. illus., maps, chronology, notes, bibliography, appendices, index, Slight wear to DJ. Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy that is now part of IHS Inc. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar. Daniel Yergin is best known for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, a number-one bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1992 and the Eccles Prize for the best book on economics for a general audience. The book was adapted into a PBS/BBC mini-series seen by more than 20 million viewers. Yergin was awarded the 1997 United States Energy Award for "lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding." The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through 1990. The Prize became a bestseller, helped by its release date in December 1990, four months after the invasion of Kuwait ordered by Saddam Hussein and one month before the U.S.-led coalition began the Gulf War to oust Iraqi troops from that country. The book eventually went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.
The Prize has been called the "definitive" history of the oil industry"
In 1992 The Prize won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction; it has been translated into fourteen languages. Now out of print in hardcover, The Prize is often cited as essential background reading for students of the history of petroleum. Prof. Joseph R. Rudolph Jr. said in Library Journal, for example: "Written by one of the foremost U.S. authorities on energy, it is a major work in the field, replete with enough insight to satisfy the scholar and sufficient concern with the drama and colorful personalities in the history of oil to capture the interest of the general public. Though lengthy, the book never drags in developing its themes: the relationship of oil to the rise of modern capitalism; the intertwining relations between oil, politics, and international power; and the relationship between oil and society in what Yergin calls today's age of 'Hydrocarbon Man'."
Ten years in the making, The Prize draws on extensive research carried out by the author and his staff, including Sue Lena Thompson, Robert Laubacher, and Geoffrey Lumsden. Daniel Yergin has excellent connections with the oil industry, and is the Chairman of a private energy consulting firm called Cambridge Energy Research Associates,[6] Global Energy Analyst for NBC and CNBC, member of the board of the United States Energy Association and of the U.S.-Russia Business Council. Yergin's history has 61 pages of notes and a bibliography of 26 pages that lists as sources not only 700 books, articles, and dissertations, 60 government documents, 28 "data sources", more than 34 manuscript collections, fifteen government archives, eight oral histories, and four oil company archives (Amoco, Chevron, Gulf, and Royal Dutch Shell), but also 80 personal interviews with key individuals like James Schlesinger and Armand Hammer.
The Prize has been called the "definitive" history of the oil industry"
In 1992 The Prize won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction; it has been translated into fourteen languages. Now out of print in hardcover, The Prize is often cited as essential background reading for students of the history of petroleum. Prof. Joseph R. Rudolph Jr. said in Library Journal, for example: "Written by one of the foremost U.S. authorities on energy, it is a major work in the field, replete with enough insight to satisfy the scholar and sufficient concern with the drama and colorful personalities in the history of oil to capture the interest of the general public. Though lengthy, the book never drags in developing its themes: the relationship of oil to the rise of modern capitalism; the intertwining relations between oil, politics, and international power; and the relationship between oil and society in what Yergin calls today's age of 'Hydrocarbon Man'."
Ten years in the making, The Prize draws on extensive research carried out by the author and his staff, including Sue Lena Thompson, Robert Laubacher, and Geoffrey Lumsden. Daniel Yergin has excellent connections with the oil industry, and is the Chairman of a private energy consulting firm called Cambridge Energy Research Associates,[6] Global Energy Analyst for NBC and CNBC, member of the board of the United States Energy Association and of the U.S.-Russia Business Council. Yergin's history has 61 pages of notes and a bibliography of 26 pages that lists as sources not only 700 books, articles, and dissertations, 60 government documents, 28 "data sources", more than 34 manuscript collections, fifteen government archives, eight oral histories, and four oil company archives (Amoco, Chevron, Gulf, and Royal Dutch Shell), but also 80 personal interviews with key individuals like James Schlesinger and Armand Hammer.
Synopsis
"With a new epilogue"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Prize; The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
- Author
- Yergin, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0671502484
- ISBN 13
- 9780671502485
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- c1991
- Keywords
- Middle East, OPEC, John D. Rockefeller, Oil Embargo, Energy Supplies, Arabs, Royal Dutch, Hydrocarbons, Aramco, Anglo-Iranian, British Petroleum, Exxon, Standard Oil, Gasoline, Gulf Oil, Ibn Saud, Pahlavi, Anglo-Persian, Marcus Samuel, Pipelines, Tan
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