“leading authority on energy. His book, The Prize, won the Pulitzer Prize. It's about the entire history of oil. His most recent book is The New Map: Energy,”
Books mentioned in Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin
From Dwarkesh Podcast · 2024-09-18
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“If you read Caro's biography of LBJ or Kotkin’s of Stalin, it is a history of the entire period in their country's history when this is happening. I wonder if this was the case for you. Did you”
“wrote a book about the Standard Oil trust. She said it was a great company, but it always played with loaded dice. He was the very embodiment of it. You had this trust-busting president, Theodore”
“you probably don’t know I did called The Commanding Heights. I describe a scene in the book where he brought his senior advisors together to”
“the things that made The Prize, The New Map, and The Quest distinctive. The Quest, the middle book, was a question. Where the hell did the modern solar and wind industry come from anyway? It's”
“of lighting in the 19th century from whaling. It was like in the first chapter of Moby Dick. Exactly and then it came to an end. It came to an end because of the electric”
“afterwards." I interviewed Richard Rhodes, the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It’s a similar story there, obviously it took longer. I used the advance for The Prize to actually”