This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an
essential overarching narrative of global energy the principal engine of geopolitical and
economic change A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert Daniel Yergin
continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Prize. In The Quest
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. The Quest 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 The Quest vividly reveals the decisions technologies and individuals that
are shaping our future.
