The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, by Daniel Yergin (TPB, 1992, 885 pages, $3)
"The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil- and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the 20th century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm."
Who of you who are reading this think what this author writes about is still relevant?
Look for it on the new non-fiction table, av. 9/20. (L-g.nf.)
