(Events like the partial meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear complex in Japan, the political upheavals in Egypt and Libya, and the killing of Osama bin Laden, all from this year, are combed into his arguments.) Mr. It is searching, impartial and alarmingly up to date. Yergin is back with a sequel to “The Prize.” It is called “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World,” and, if anything, it’s an even better book. Such is his influence that one half expects his competitors to file antitrust litigation against him. Yergin, operating as a kind of one-man think tank, has had a virtual monopoly on the subject of energy and geopolitics. It was a best seller, won a Pulitzer Prize and was tailored into a popular PBS mini-series. Daniel Yergin is America’s most influential energy pundit, and the book that put him on the map was “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power” (1991).
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