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

Daniel Yergin

ISBN 10: 0671502484 / ISBN 13: 9780671502485

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 1991

About this Item

Simon & Schuster, New York. 1991. Hardcover. 7th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a gift inscription on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good +; llight bumping to tail; light suntoning to spine. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($27.50); light edge bumping; light toning to spine; small areas of vinyl separation from paper at top and bottom of DJ. Blue paper over boards with white cloth overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 877 pp + xxxii index 8vo. The author lays out the panoramic history of oil around the world and how the struggle for wealth and power has always surrounded it. It is a struggle that has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. This book is as much a history of the modern world as of the oil industry, for oil has shaped the politics of the 20th Century and has profoundly changed the way we lead our lives. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Prize; The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671502484
• ISBN 13: 9780671502485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • U.S. History/ Politics/ Presidental Matters
  • Business/Trade/Industry
  • Energy/Oil/Gas

About this title

Synopsis

Written by the author of "Shattered Peace" and "Energy Future", this book brings to life the tycoons, wildcatters, monopolists, regulators, presidents, generals and sheiks whose struggle for oil has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, transformed the destiny of Britain and the world and profoundly changed all our lives. Beginning with the first oil well of the 1850s and continuing up to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, it is a story of greed, gumption nad ingenuity, all in pursuit of "the prize" - worldwide economic, military and political mastery through the control of oil. The book includes the story of Shell Oil, a company forged in defiance of the Standard Oil monopoly by an upstart London trader, using Rothchild connections, Russian oil and Dutch petrolium concession in the East Indies. The central strategic role of oil in both world wars - from the decisive 4-knot-per-hour advantage of oil-burning ships in World War I to Rommel's stalled tank advance at El Alamein in War II (he literally ran out of petrol) The underground battle to wind the greatest prize of all - the Saudi oil concession. The inside story of the discovery of North Sea Oil and its crucial role in undermining the OPEC monopoly.

Review

"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 Schlesingerformer U.S. Secretary of Defense and U.S. Secretary of EnergyA masterly narrative..."The Prize" portrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies. James Schlesingerformer U.S. Secretary of Defense and U.S. Secretary of EnergyA masterly narrative..."The Prize" portrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies. "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. "The Boston Sunday Globe"Pure narrative history, spun out as a tremendously exciting epic covering nearly six generations. "The Wall Street Journal"Splendid and epic...brilliantly told.