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Book Description
"The Prize" recounts the panoramic history of oil - and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil.
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lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010
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"The Prize" is, without a doubt, the best account on the history of the oil industry. Yergin covers oil in all its aspects, as a business as well as a strategic resource, in a flawless tale that begins in the oil regions of Pennsylvania in the 1800s and goes right on to the geopolitical implications ... (continue)
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Poor George
On 3 April 1986, at his filling-station in north Dallas, Billy Jack Mason was protesting about the fall in the price of oil. Cars came from as far as Waco, and by breakfast, the queue was six miles long. He was offering unleaded at zero cents a gallo ... (read full critics)