Publisher Description
Deemed “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, this is Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power.
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“I’m marking this as read, but I really only skimmed it and that was years ago (1999 I think) so at this point it’s on my must-read-it-again list. It was part of my International Political Econ class in college which was a great class, but yikes on the amount of reading, so I ended up pulling out points here and there for our weekly summaries in order to move on to the other assigned readings. I had some friends who used to divide the readings among themselves and then tell each other what they had read – in retrospect I wish I had participated just because of the sheer amount of reading it was. I have an overall sense of some really perceptive scholarship and a number of revelations from this book on how international trade and economy have worked and the writing itself was not difficult to get involved in – rather than the dryness one might expect from a book with such great historical detail on one particular trade item, it was engagingly and interestingly written.”
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Trice (4 out of 5 stars)
