The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

<b>This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>The Prize</i> provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change</b><br /><br />A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, <i>The Prize</i>. In <i>The Quest</i>, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them.<br /><br /> <i>The Quest</i> tells the inside stories, tackles the tough questions, and reveals surprising  insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas. He explains how climate change became a great issue and leads readers through the rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. Epic in scope and never more timely, <i>The Quest </i>vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.