 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin
This book is a model of what good 'industry biography' should be. The author of 'The Commanding Heights' outlines the story of oil - black gold - and how it became the commodity that moves the world. The story Yergin tells is colourful, authoritative and - quite literally - earth-shaking; it is the story of the rise and development of capitalism an... (See the whole review) (Added by Peter Cresswell on 12/13/2004, 12:35pm)
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