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Deemed the best history of oil ever written by business week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, daniel yergin s pulitzer prize winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis. The origins of the cold war, and coauthor of commanding. The epic quest for oil, money and power, which became a number one bestseller and was made into an eighthour pbs bbc series seen by millions of people around the world. Dec 8, 2016 collection of books every one must read their life time. 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. Apr 22, 20 daniel yergin founded the new journal in 1967, the summer before his senior year at yale. Energy, security, and the remaking of the modern world, and shattered peace.
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