Books
Yergin's first book, Shattered Peace, focused on the origins of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West. It received the book award from the National Historical Society. Shattered Peace was partly based upon Yergin’s Ph.D. dissertation.
He co-authored and co-edited with Robert B. Stobaugh, Energy Future: the Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School, which was a New York Times bestseller.
Daniel Yergin is best known for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, a number-one bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1992 and the Eccles Prize for the best book on economics for a general audience. The book was adapted into a PBS/BBC mini-series seen by more than 20 million viewers. Yergin was awarded the 1997 United States Energy Award for "lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding."
His next book was Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World, written with Thane Gustafson, which provided scenarios for the development of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This was followed by The Commanding Heights: the Battle for the World Economy, written with Joseph Stanislaw. Which started out as a 60,000 word essay, and described in narrative form the struggle over the “frontier” between governments and markets and the rise of globalization. It was made into a prize-winning six-hour PBS/BBC television series. Yergin was executive producer and host of the series. Yergin interviewed many high profile people including Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Gordon Brown, Newt Gingrich, and Robert Rubin, as well as prominent economists.
In September 2011, Yergin published his 804-page The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, which continued his history of the global oil industry but also addressed energy security, natural gas, electric power, climate change and the search for renewable sources of energy.
All of Yergin's books were drafted in long-hand.
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