The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin

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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin

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Daniel Yergin's masterful epic history of the global oil industry naturally includes extensive history from the Middle East and North Africa. While this is a much broader work written in a more engaging style, it touches on many of the same issues of the difficulties of managing oil wealth that are found in Jill Crystal's "Oil and Politics in the Gulf". The book takes a very personality-centered approach, so many technical and geological details important to the oil industry are not covered, but this remains essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the oil industry and its effects on nation states.