The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
	Hardcover
Author	Daniel Yergin
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	History
Genre	Nonfiction
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	December 1990
Pages	912
ISBN	0-671-50248-4 (hardcover); 0-671-79932-0 (paperback)
Dewey Decimal	338.2/7282/0904 20
LC Class	HD9560.6 .Y47 1990
Followed by	The Quest

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 1990 history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through 1990. The Prize became a bestseller, helped by its release date in December 1990, four months after the invasion of Kuwait ordered by Saddam Hussein and one month before the U.S.-led coalition began the Gulf War to oust Iraqi troops from that country.^[1]^[2] The book eventually went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.^[3]

The Prize has been called the "definitive" history of the oil industry, even a "bible".^[4]

^ MIT Communications Forum: "Beyond the Ivory Tower" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, February 18, 1999.
^ Leslie H. Gelb, "The Stuff That Makes the World Go Round". The New York Times, December 9, 1990.
^ "The 1992 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction: The Prize, by Daniel Yergin". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
^ Matthew Yeomans, Oil: Anatomy of an Industry. New York & London: New Press, 2004. ISBN 1-56584-885-3, p. 220

[1] MIT Communications Forum: "Beyond the Ivory Tower" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, February 18, 1999.

[2] Leslie H. Gelb, "The Stuff That Makes the World Go Round". The New York Times, December 9, 1990.

[Pulitzer-3] "The 1992 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction: The Prize, by Daniel Yergin". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2016-09-28.

[4] Matthew Yeomans, Oil: Anatomy of an Industry. New York & London: New Press, 2004. ISBN 1-56584-885-3, p. 220

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