This meme consisted of a picture of a gas pump with a Post-It note stuck next to the digital price-per-gallon screen. Sometime later, I came across a certain politically-oriented meme on my brother’s Facebook page. For a long time it just sat there, on my shelf, laughing at me.įinally, one day, I picked it up, and started to read it. It is, after all, a tremendously big tome about oil it does not scream out to be consumed or embraced or loved. After the purchase, I put it on the shelf. I bought Daniel Yergin’s The Prize during one of my semi-regular fits of intellectual hunger, which often strike after I’ve read five straight books about Nazi henchman and zero books about anything relevant to today’s world. Yergin holds a BA from Yale University and a PhD from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, on the Board of the New America Foundation, and on the Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative.ĭr. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board and chaired the US Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development.

Yergin produced received three Emmy nominations, and the New York Festivals Gold World Medal for best documentary.ĭr. The 6-hour documentary Commanding Heights that Dr. The eight-hour miniseries The Prize was aired on PBS, BBC, and NHK and viewed by 20 million viewers in the United States alone. Yergin has also written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, and many other publications.īoth The Prize and Commanding Heights were made into award winning documentaries. Yergin include Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. Yergin is Vice Chairman of IHS and Founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and serves as CNBC’s Global Energy Expert. He received the Pulitzer Prize for The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power, which became a number one New York Times best seller and has been translated into 17 languages.ĭr. Daniel Yergin is the author of the new bestseller The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World which has been hailed as “a fascinating saga” about the “quest for sustainable resources of energy,” and “the book you must read to understand the future of our economy and our way of life,” not to mention “necessary reading for C.E.O.’s, conservationists, lawmakers, generals, spies, tech geeks, thriller writers.

The prize an epic quest for oil