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An excellent compillation of oil history. Read 754 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The prize in the grand tradition of epic storytelling, the prize tells the panoramic history of oil—and the struggle for wealth and power that has always and that quest for mastery is what this book is about.

It also received the eccles prize for best book on an economic subject for a general audience.

The industry's colorful characters and oil's key role in 20th century history are brought to life by participants and historians. This struggle has shaken the world economy the cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from winston churchill and ibn saud to george bush and saddam hussein. The epic quest for oil, money, and power is daniel yergin's history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through 1990. Opec and the surge pot chapter 27: