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The Prize (Daniel Yergin)
The Pulitzer-winning epic of oil, money and power: Drake's well, Rockefeller's Standard Oil, Churchill's navy, oil as the decisive resource of two world wars, the Middle East concessions, OPEC and the 1973 shock.
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Prereqs: Industrial history; Middle East since 1918. Next: The Box. Book: Daniel Yergin, *The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power* (1991; Pulitzer Prize 1992); PBS series (1992).Next: 1. Birth of an industry