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Books by Daniel Yergin mentioned on podcasts
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The Prize
The Prize by Daniel Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical account exploring the central role that energy, particularly oil, has played in global power, geopolitics, and international conflict for over a century.
Recommended“my second book, Daniel Jurgens's the prize. It's a history of the oil market. It's kind of the model for a lot of similar books that came first, but Jurgen's kind of the OG. It's I I love those histories that kind of tell a history of the world. This is almost a history of the 20th century, but through”
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The Commanding Heights
Discussed“I discussed this in a book you probably don’t know I did called The Commanding Heights. I describe a scene in the book where he brought his senior advisors together to argue about whether you allow market forces to work or not.”
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The New Map
The New Map by Daniel Yergin is a comprehensive geopolitical and energy analysis that examines the shifting global landscape of oil, renewables, and great power competition.
Discussed“One is in The New Map and you and I have talked about it. It’s the meeting with Prime Minister Modi in India.”
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The Quest
Discussed“That is one of the things that made The Prize, The New Map, and The Quest distinctive. The Quest, the middle book, was a question. Where the hell did the modern solar and wind industry come from anyway?”
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