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The Prize The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power

Daniel Yergin

Traces the history of the struggle for oil in the United States--the individuals involved, the impact of secret deals, the iron-willed tycoons, national strategies, gas lines, and oil gluts

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The Ezra Klein Show

Roger praised it as a classic work that chronicled the central role of oil in global power and geopolitics over more than a century.

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Dan Juergen's tour de force, The Prize, is a really classic work about the central role energy, particularly oil, has played in global power and geopolitics for more than a century.

— Episode: When Great Power Conflict and Climate Ac...

Episode: When Great Power Conflict and Climate Action Colli...

Roger praised it as a classic work that chronicled the central role of oil in global power and geopolitics over more than a century.

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Dan Juergen's tour de force, The Prize, is a really classic work about the central role energy, particularly oil, has played in global power and geopolitics for more than a century.

Episode: How Energy Markets Are Shaping Putin’s Invasion —...

Ezra noted that Yergin authored the Pulitzerwinning book that chronicled the epic quest for oil, money, and power.

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He's the author of a bunch of books on the intersection of energy and geopolitics, including the Pulitzer winner, the prize at the epic quest for oil, money and power, and most recently the new map, Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations.

The Rest Is History

The hosts praised it as an absolutely brilliant book that reads like a thriller, covering the oil companies and the geopolitical quest for oil.

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It's called The Prize by an American writer called Daniel Juergen. It's an absolutely brilliant book. It almost reads like a thrill.

— Episode: 120. The Oil Weapon

Episode: 120. The Oil Weapon

The hosts praised it as an absolutely brilliant book that reads like a thriller, covering the oil companies and the geopolitical quest for oil.

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It's called The Prize by an American writer called Daniel Juergen. It's an absolutely brilliant book. It almost reads like a thrill.

...he is the protagonist in some ways of Daniel Uyghur's book, The Prize.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Yergin's acclaimed history traced the global oil industry from its beginnings to modern geopolitics, providing context for the Nobel oil saga discussed in the episode.

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Our learned audience may know the name Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize, The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, and The New Map, Energy Climate, and the Clash of Nations.

— Episode: The TRUTH About Emanuel Nobel, Russia's...

Episode: The TRUTH About Emanuel Nobel, Russia's Communism...

Yergin's acclaimed history traced the global oil industry from its beginnings to modern geopolitics, providing context for the Nobel oil saga discussed in the episode.

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Our learned audience may know the name Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize, The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, and The New Map, Energy Climate, and the Clash of Nations.

Stay Tuned with Preet

It was discussed as a definitive history of the oil industry, written in 1990, and was frequently referenced throughout the podcast.

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His 1990 book, The Prize, The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, is widely recognized as the definitive history of the oil industry.

— Episode: The Price and Politics of Oil (with Dani...

Episode: The Price and Politics of Oil (with Daniel Yergin)

It was discussed as a definitive history of the oil industry, written in 1990, and was frequently referenced throughout the podcast.

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His 1990 book, The Prize, The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, is widely recognized as the definitive history of the oil industry.

When I was writing the prize on investigating high gasoline prices was in 1923.

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