With donald sutherland, daniel yergin, norman cooley, stephanie cran. Yergin explores oil s role in war, describes the everchanging structure of the oil industry, and discusses the prominent and often colorful petroleum players. Yergin finally arrives in the postwar period at roughly the midpoint of his narrative, and from then on the prize becomes ever more muddled. Documentary adaptation of daniel yergins pulitzer prizewinning book on the global oil industry and geopolitics. The seven books you must read if you want to understand oil. He is vice chairman of ihs and founder of ihs cambridge energy research associates. All wars and world economy since wwi has been driven by the need to control access to oil. Hailed by the new york times as a book that must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history, yergins bestselling pulitzer prize winner was made into an exciting eightpart miniseries that aired on pbs. The prize part 1 our plan official video episode 1 of 8.
Daniel yergins book is a treasure trove of interesting information that can capture the interest of young people. Yergin explores oils role in war, describes the everchanging structure of the oil industry, and discusses the prominent and often colorful petroleum players. Pulitzer prize winner and now an epic pbs seriesthe prize recounts the panoramic history of oil. The epic quest for oil, money, and power wikipedia.
The prize explains the fluctuations in the oil business beginning with edward drake s first successful oil well in pennsylvania, followed by teddy roosevelt s antimonopoly case against standard oil and finishes with the development of the oil industry in saudi arabia. The epic quest for oil, money and power, published by touchstone books, about the history of the oil industry and its influence on world politics and. The role of states was further formalized through the 1935 interstate oil compact that provided a forum for states to exchange information and plans, standardize legislation, and coordinate prorationing and conservation in production. This book is the 669th greatest nonfiction book of all time as determined by. Jan 15, 1991 the prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. Keiths list of recommended books oil and gas investments. This is a very wellwritten and neutral history of the oil and gas industry worldwide, from its beginnings in the u. Money and power is a pulitzer prizewinning nonfiction book by daniel yergin that traces the history of oil exploitation and. Some of it reads more like fiction you cant make this stuff up. Yergin received the pulitzer prize for the number one bestseller the prize. The epic quest for oil, money, and power is daniel yergins history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through 1990.
The petrophysical rock core contains gas or oil which are used as fuel as for energy source. Parts 1 and 2 of the book offer background and context for understanding the technical discussion of saudi oil fields and the worlds energy supplies. The prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. Described as a sequel to his book the prize, yergins the quest. The prize is a wellwritten and wellresearched addition to a branch of history that, until very recently, had been sadly neglectedbusiness history. Money and power is a pulitzer prize winning nonfiction book by daniel yergin that traces the history of oil exploitation and.
It became a number one new york times best seller and has been translated into 20 languages. The prize the epic quest for oil, money, and power based on daniel yergins pulitzer prizewinning book and narrated by awardwinning actor donald sutherland the hunger games, the prize is. The oil industry had a vast new market for what had been for many years a useless byproduct of the distilling process. Sep 11, 2012 the prize recounts the panoramic history of oil and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. The book starts off with the discovery of oil in america. Yergin is known around the world for his book the prize.
The epic quest for oil, money and power yergin, daniel on. The canvas of history is enormous from the the prize recounts the panoramic history of oil and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Twa article daniel yergin a prize for the oil and gas industry. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of the prize. The epic quest for oil, money, and power by daniel.
The epic quest for oil, money and power this exciting and entertaining eightpart series, based on daniel yergins pulitzer prizewinning book, captures the panoramic history of the biggest industry in the world. The epic quest for oil, money, and power by daniel yergin. The historical narrative begins in the 1850s and continues through 1990. Founded in the 19th century, the oil industry began producing kerosene for lamps and progressed to gasoline. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. Finally, there was stability brought about by the regulatory system in place for the oil industry, and it had taken east texas oil at about 10 cents a barrel to get the industry and producing states to move in that direction. 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. After reading the prize i have got a far better understanding of the oil industry history, its structure, its evolution, its heroes and villains, its influence in our lives since 1859, the way its lack of or abundance of changed crucial moments in the last century and a half of human. The epic quest for oil, money, and power by daniel yergin, erosion. The oil industry was one of the first to confront the multifarious challenges of thirdworld nationalism and nationalization, but the truly important story of how it fared is too often buried here under numbing accounts of the renegotiation of oil leases.
The globespanning story of the oil industry from the first strikes of the 19th century through the gulf war. The timing of the publication of the book a few months after the invasion of kuwait by saddam hussein propelled it into immediate relevance, making it a bestseller and a pulitzer prize winner. The prize recounts the panoramic history of oil, and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. The epic quest for oil, money, and power by daniel yergin published in 1990. In exploring the history of the oil industry over a century and. Dec 23, 2008 the engaging way this book is written makes it difficult to put aside and carry on with ones daily duties. Aug 07, 2015 the seven books you must read if you want to understand oil. It also received the eccles prize for best book on an economic. Documentary adaptation of daniel yergins pulitzer prize winning book on the global oil industry and geopolitics. The stresses in the oil industry even led to a tariff imposed on oil imports in 1932. Parts 3 and 4 contain analysis of saudi arabias oil and gas industry based on the technical papers published by the society of petroleum engineers. Based on daniel yergins pulitzer prize winning book and narrated by awardwinning actor donald sutherland the hunger games, the prize is an exciting and entertaining eightpart series that. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the. 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 worldoil.
Yergin shattered peace, a muchquoted energy consultant, here offers a timely, informationpacked, authoritative history of the petroleum industry, tracing its ramifications, national and geopolit. This page contains details about the nonfiction book the prize. Energy, security, and the remaking of the modern world by daniel yergin. The industry s colorful characters and oil s key role in 20th century history are brought to life by participants and historians. The content of this course is divided into 12 modules that follow the pulitzer prize winning book the prize. As soon as the internal combustion engines created demand, refiners sought.
Daniel yergins first prizewinning book, shattered peace, was a history of the cold war. This terrific documentary based on the pulitzer prize winning book presents an incredibly incisive and insightful story based one on bold premise. The course was a hybrid undergraduategraduate course, and one of the differentiators was that the graduate students had to read the prize and write a paper on it. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. Energy, security, and the remaking of the modern world 2011 continued his history of the global oil industry but also addressed energy security, natural gas, electric power, climate change and the search for renewable sources of energy. The epic quest for oil, money, and power is daniel yergins 800page history of the global oil industry from the 1850s through 1990. The prize is as much a history of the 20thcentury as of the oil industry itself.
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