Publisher Description
This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them. The Quest tells the inside stories, tackles the tough questions, and reveals surprising insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas. He explains how climate change became a great issue and leads readers through the rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. Epic in scope and never more timely, The Quest vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.
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“Simply the best history book I’ve read in ages, and an easy read for a fat book. Looking at world economic history through the lens of energy development and its use is eye opening to say the least. The political ramifications of energy stocks, who has them, who wants them, who sets the price and why is just fascinating. I particularly enjoyed learning about the history of the science of climate, the green house effect and global warming. The section on Clean Tech or renewables is also fresh and enlightening. Walter Issacson described “THE QUEST” best, “This is the one book you must read to understand the future of our economy and our way of life.””
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Eric (5 out of 5 stars)
