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Author | Daniel Yergin |
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Language | English |
Subject | History |
Genre | Nonfiction |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | December 1990 |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 912 |
ISBN | 0-671-50248-4 (hardcover) 0-671-79932-0 (paperback) |
338.2/7282/0904 20 | |
LC Class | HD9560.6 .Y47 1990 |
Followed by | The Quest |
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 1990 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.[1][2] The book eventually went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.[3]
The Prize has been called the "definitive" history of the oil industry, even a "bible".[4]