The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

Daniel Yergin. Touchstone Books, $16 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-75705-2

Energy consultant Yergin limns oil's central role in most of the wars and many international crises of the 20th century. ``A timely, information-packed, authoritative history of the petroleum industry, tracing its ramifications, national and geopolitical, to the present day,'' said PW. Photos. Author tour. (Nov.)

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