The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

Daniel Yergin · 1993 · 908 pages

Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis.
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