The Quest
Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
“A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . .” —Wall Street Journal
“It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. The Quest is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here.” —The Financial Times
This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change
A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The…
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September 26, 2012Daniel Yergin is “America’s most influential energy pundit” (New York Times) and “one of the planet’s foremost thinkers about energy and its implications” (Fortune). Dr. Yergin is the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power; The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World; and Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War; and coauthor of The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. He is vice chairman of IHS Markit, one of the world’s leading information and research firms. A Yale graduate, he holds a PhD from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
