Who recommended The Prize?

11 people have recommended The Prize in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Bill Gates, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Patrick OShaughnessy and Geoffrey Miller. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is The Prize worth reading?

11 people we track recommend it. It is best for: policy analyst at a government energy office preparing background briefs before international negotiations — because the book supplies decades of case studies tying supply shocks to policy responses.; financial analyst covering commodities or energy companies building sector reports — because it traces market dynamics, major corporate strategies, and geopolitical risk across time.; graduate student writing a term paper on 20th-century geopolitics or energy economics who needs a long-form narrative and timeline to scaffold archival or secondary-source research.. It may not suit: You’ll likely put it down when the narrative plunges into long chapters cataloguing deals, companies, and personalities; the slog of names and dates is the common drop-off point.; Annoying if you prefer brief, argumentative reads or practical guidance — this is descriptive history rather than a prescriptive manual.; Lose interest if you want technical, engineering-level explanations of extraction methods; technology is discussed at a strategic, not a step-by-step, level..

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The Prize by Daniel Yergin: Recommended by 11 People

Name: The Prize
Author: Daniel Yergin

Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis....