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Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from there, The Prize, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, is a comprehensive history of one of the commodities that powers the world--oil. Founded in the 19th century, the oil industry began producing kerosene for lamps and progressed to gasoline. Huge personal fortunes arose from it, and whole nations sprung out of the power politics of the oil wells. Yergin's fascinating account sweeps from early robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, to the oil crisis of the 1970s, through to the Gulf War.
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This book does not require recent events in the Persian Gulf to make it an essential addition for most public libraries as well as all college libraries. Written by one of the foremost U.S. authorities on energy, it 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." Parts of the story have been told as authoritatively before, e.g., in Irvine Anderson's Aramco: The United States and Saudi Arabia ( LJ 7/81), but never in as comprehensive a fashion as here.
- Joseph R. Rudolph Jr., Towson State Univ., Md.
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- Joseph R. Rudolph Jr., Towson State Univ., Md.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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The trend toward authorial self-glorification has gone too far when the back cover of a book reads: 'Daniel Yergin is an authority on world affairs'. What's next? An Expert on Matters Pertaining to the Universe?
Considering his exalted position in the world, this is a remarkably mediocre book, though there are details worth pondering, such as the irony of Japan powering its Pearl Harbor raid with oil imported from California. Worse than that, and more sobering, is the realization that Japan subjugated Taiwan, China, and other parts of Asia over the course of four decades with oil from California. Millions of lives were destroyed, but the oil spigot was not shut off until July of 1941. Why? Roosevelt did not want to give Japan a pretext for attacking the East Indies. Yergin relates this astounding spinelessness without a hint of irony, as though it were a perfectly good excuse for supplying a fascist power with the means to mass murder.
Yergin misses the boat entirely when it comes to the price drop of the mid-eighties, claiming the Saudis flooded the market to gain market share and that George Bush went from place to place as the 'point man' for the Reagan administration arguing for a price floor for oil. Nonsense. Ronald Reagan's goal was the destruction of the Soviet Empire, and one of his key strategies was to take away the Russians' source of hard currency: the sale of oil. Every one dollar drop in the price of crude deprived the Soviets of billions of dollars of revenue, revenue that their own paraplegic of an economy could never hope to generate on its own. If there was any 'point man' for the administration in the Middle East, it was William Casey, who guaranteed the Saudis' security against Marxist revolutionaries and regional dictators like Saddam. In exchange, the Saudis flooded the market with oil. This not only deprived the Soviets of real money, it also gave Americans the equivalent of a tax cut. Is it just coincidence that the Soviet Union began to collapse just a few months later? Just coincidence that the US saved the Saudis and Kuwait from the fourth largest army in the world, when just a few years earlier these same Arab sheikhs were universally reviled for having us over a barrel?
Also lacking in this very thick book is any serious technical discussion of oil, theories of exploration, pros and cons of new technologies...In place of this, there is seemingly endless talk of contracts, and, even more mind-numbing, negotiation of contracts, interlarded with impertinent anecdotes about people who wandered in and out of the industry. Yergin devotes a lot of space to rehashing trivia about Rockefeller and cliches about Americans and their love of cars, material that has been presented elsewhere so many times as to be almost common knowledge. In a book that is ostensibly about oil and money and power, almost nothing is said about the governments of Europe and their hyper-taxation of oil or what their goals are and whether they've been attained. One looks in vain for any mention of the natural gas or propane or diesel or asphalt or plastic industries.
Overall, The Prize resembles a mass of articles from Newsweek and Time: flaccid, insipid, superficial, slick. This would not surprise me if it were the work of anyone other than 'an authority on world affairs'.
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Mr. Yergin has managed to transform an otherwise corrosive subject into a useful by-product of information, thereby lubricating our minds and allowing its wheels to analyze how the supply and demand of this strategic commodity has affected every aspect of our twentieth century lives. From the owl-like visions of Mr. Rockefeller to the dodoesque ineptitude of OPEC, the information contained in what appears to be a derrick size book nevertheless manages to flow with the same slippery force as the counterpart it portrays.
A must read for History buffs, oil moguls, grease monkeys, and patrons of the ubiquitous Octopus (yes, this means you!) Postscript: To whet the appetite of synthetic oil converts: Nazi Germany pioneered the extraction of synthetic fuel from shale in the 1930s. And for all you History buffs:
Patton's tank corps ran out of fuel and was not resupplied, hence extending WWII in Europe for at least 3 additional months; can you imagine all the lives that could've been saved?. Finally, for all you patrons who believe you are at the mercy of the Octopus, I have news for you: OPEC embargoes and price hikes in the 1970s nearly wrecked not only their respective national treasuries, but nearly bankrupted several oil companies.
READ IT AND LEARN !!!!
A must read for History buffs, oil moguls, grease monkeys, and patrons of the ubiquitous Octopus (yes, this means you!) Postscript: To whet the appetite of synthetic oil converts: Nazi Germany pioneered the extraction of synthetic fuel from shale in the 1930s. And for all you History buffs:
Patton's tank corps ran out of fuel and was not resupplied, hence extending WWII in Europe for at least 3 additional months; can you imagine all the lives that could've been saved?. Finally, for all you patrons who believe you are at the mercy of the Octopus, I have news for you: OPEC embargoes and price hikes in the 1970s nearly wrecked not only their respective national treasuries, but nearly bankrupted several oil companies.
READ IT AND LEARN !!!!
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An excellent history of the oil industry. This book civers fron the first oil find until today. It well documents the impact that oil has had on the world in the past as well as today. The formation of some of the biggest industrial concerns in the history of the world a covered in this book as well. The author also explains the dominant role of the Middle East in the oil industry picture. This is a very informative and readable book even if it is long. This book is a good writing on a subject that is hard to write about. This book also does a good job describing the makeup and breakup of the Standard Oil Company. Be sure to read this book.
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A book not about oil, but how oil changed mankind.
I am a chemical engineer in the oil industry and this book intrests me for obvious reason, but... This book is about the impact oil and mankind has had on each other. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Juni 2000 von Ernest Boehm
This book hits a gusher
While "The Prize" purports to be the history of oil, it could just as easily be in part a history of every major human undertaking of the last century or so. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Mai 2000 von Brian D. Rubendall
Insight into the World of Oil
An excellent read. One of the most factual yet interesting books I have read in a long time. This book is a must not only for people interested in the Oil industry, but for anyone... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Mai 2000 von Peter H Harlow
This is an excellent source about the history of oil.
Since I chose oil futures as a term paper topic for my graduate investment class, I really wanted to get a strong background on how oil became such a powerful commodity since it... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. Mai 2000 von Diane Selock
Informative, interesting and enjoyable (if you are into oil)
Whether you like this book depends on whether you already have an interest in oil. As an energy analyst, I find the book engrossing, particularly its explanation of the role that... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Dezember 1999 von Sukit Chawalitakul
One of the best social and economic history books ever!
If you want to learn about the impact that oil has had and still has on the world--read this outstanding book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
One of the best economic history books around.
If more people were to read this book, the world would be a better place.
If you are going to read just one economic history book this year, than look no further. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
A comprehensive treatise on the history of the oil industry
It is an masterpiece on the history of the oil industry, giving a complete account of the political factors that have affected the industry since its birth in Titusville, PA.
Veröffentlicht am 2. März 1999 von farooq_m@hotmail.com Farooq Mohammed
Restored my interest in the old book reading habit of mine
The last five or six books that I have read were so boring that I had lost interest in book reading habit of mine. The first 100 pages of this book are fabulous. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
An excellent read
This book has it all. You often forget you are reading a non-fiction book. Follow the oil industry though time two world wars and plenty of conflicts. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
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