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

I just can't say enough about the readability of this.

For people that want to know from the past, it reads like Daniel Yergin, The Prize, Commanding Heights, and the others.

Does it demystify the bond market?

It does, and he's beautiful about explaining Tom Keene Babel in English.

But clearly now there is the interest in the potential of oil.

Daniel Yergin wrote a wonderful book called The Prize, which is essentially a history of oil and the race to try to dominate it.

But the history of the Middle East oftentimes, again, is framed as one of regional conflicts back and forth.

But the Middle East is actually more a background or a backdrop for the proxy war between rival empires and rival colonial interests like the British and the French.

I always travel with a book.

This guy, um, it's called "The New Map." I read "The Prize," uh, by Daniel Yergin.

He has a great book about oil.

Uh, I'm sort of in this energy, um, read and stuff, and this, he, sort of his follow-up, and I just picked it up.

If you haven't already read, please read all his books.

There's The Prize, The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power.

There's The New Map, Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations.

And then there is The Quest, Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World.

So The Prize, The Quest and The New Map.

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Why is Micron booming in Boise? It all plays into the...

same underlying backdrop like these are just business negotiations going on these are business development meetings uh is kind of how i frame it if you look at books like my favorite my all-time favorite book probably the prize by daniel jurgen tells this story starting in um like 18 the 1860s uh for uh the energy industry specifically once we figured out how to viably um you know drill for oil make it economic and we were figuring out how to you know, spin up new products with it that people found valuable.

And that book tells the story of 20th century history through the lens of the energy industry.

And you go through all the events, World War I, World War II, the Iraq War I, like all of that.

There's like a project management plan underway, and it's right in the open.

You can see it playing out.

If you rate the prize, the version of the prize on this era in 100 years, it'll look like a clean narrative.

But the lived experience is insanely volatile for everybody involved.