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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 1990 history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through 1990. The Prize became a bestseller, helped by its release date in December 1990, four months after the invasion of Kuwait ordered by Saddam Hussein and one month before the U.S.-led coalition began the Gulf War to oust Iraqi troops from that country.
Yergin is arguably best known for his fourth book, [12] The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1991). [4] It became a number-one bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1992 and the Eccles Prize for the best book on economics for a general audience, [31] selling around 700,000 copies [4] in 17 languages. [32]
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software is a (2007) Random House literary nonfiction book by Salon.com editor and journalist Scott Rosenberg.
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Reception of The Quest has been generally positive, [8] [9] with Asahi Shimbun listing it as a "Book of the Year". [10] Praise for the book has predominantly centered on Yergin's coverage of the energy system, [6] [11] with The New York Times referring to the book as "necessary reading" and The Economist calling it a "comprehensive guide to the world's great energy needs and dilemmas".