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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
''The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power'' is Daniel Yergin's history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through 1990. ''The Prize'' became a bestseller, helped by its release date in October 1990, two months after the invasion of Kuwait ordered by Saddam Hussein and three months before the U.S.-led coalition began the Gulf War to oust Iraqi troops from that country.〔(Beyond the Ivory Tower )〕 It eventually went on to win the Pulitzer Prize.
''The Prize'' has been called the "definitive" history of the oil industry, even a "bible".〔(Matthew Yeomans, ''Oil: Anatomy of an Industry'' (York & London: New Press, 2004 ), ISBN 1-56584-885-3, p. 220)〕
==Popular success==
In 1992 ''The Prize'' won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction;〔 it has been translated into fourteen languages. Now out of print in hardcover, ''The Prize'' was published in a paperback edition (ISBN 0-671-79932-0) that was released at the end of 1992, and is currently in print. ''The Prize'' is often cited as essential background reading for students of the history of petroleum. Prof. Joseph R. Rudolph Jr. said in ''Library Journal'', for example, that ''The Prize'', "written by one of the foremost U.S. authorities on energy...is a major work in the field, replete with enough insight to satisfy the scholar and sufficient concern with the drama and colorful personalities in the history of oil to capture the interest of the general public. Though lengthy, the book never drags in developing its themes: the relationship of oil to the rise of modern capitalism; the intertwining relations between oil, politics, and international power; and the relationship between oil and society in what Yergin calls today's age of 'Hydrocarbon Man'."〔(Book Reviews )〕
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