Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future
Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Prize- The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, The Quest- Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, and Shattered Peace- The Origins of the Cold War, and coauthor of Commanding Heights- The Battle for the World Economy. He is vice chairman of IHS Markit, one of the leading information and research firms in the world, a member of the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior trustee of the Brookings Institution, and has served on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under the last four presidential administrations.
“This should be mandatory reading for President-elect Joe Biden’s
incoming team.” —Admiral James Stavridis
“A master class on how the world works.” —NPR
“[The New Map] earned energy’s highest literary prize for its
ambitious survey and realistic assessment of energy and how it
shapes all of human affairs. It is also an exceptional literary
triumph in its narrative and in the quality of writing that we have
come to expect from Dan Yergin.” —The American Energy
Society, in awarding Daniel Yergin “Energy Writer of
the Year”
“The veteran energy analyst Daniel Yergin has turned his
considerable talents to explaining how the world continues to be
shaped by oil in his latest book, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and
the Clash of Nations . . . Reportorial and supremely
readable—no mean feat among geostrategy tomes.” —Wall Street
Journal
“At a time when solid facts and reasoned arguments are in retreat,
Daniel Yergin rides to the rescue. The Pulitzer Prize-winning
author and energy savant is armed to the teeth with enough telling
statistics to sink an oil tanker in The New Map: Energy, Climate,
and the Clash of Nations (Penguin Press, 512
pp., ★★★★ out of four) . . . Yergin provides an engaging
survey course on the lifeblood of modern civilization—where the
world has been and where it is likely headed. By the final page,
the reader will feel like an energy expert herself.” —USA Today
“Brisk and authoritative, an impressive combination.” —The
Economist
“The New Map is a kaleidoscopic survey of seemingly every
geopolitical development in recent (and not so recent) history, all
seen through the lens of energy, national rivalries, changing
technologies, and the looming threat of climate change . . .
Yergin, the vice chairman of the energy research powerhouse IHS
Markit, is strongest when it comes to oil and gas, still the
mainstays of the world’s energy supplies now and in the decades to
come. Even readers familiar with the U.S. “shale gale” will find
new gems in his retelling of the pioneers who shattered shale to
unleash a revolution. Russia, today leveraging oil and gas the way
it once wielded Marxist-Leninist ideas, also provides great grist
for Yergin, as do China’s energy-driven forays into the South China
Sea . . . Admirable, well-researched, highly readable examination.”
—Foreign Policy
“The New Map is a must-read for those who are national security
experts or aspire to be. Why? Because most national security
professionals, this one included, have deep expertise on certain
issues or regions, but we do not have it across the full range of
the world’s most pressing issues. In The New Map, Yergin
demonstrates this global mastery. He reviews critical historical
decisions of key nations and international coalitions, as well as
the inflection points where opportunities were lost or created,
bringing us to today’s geopolitical environment. In the telling,
the reader gains a much broader understanding of other nations’
historical perspectives, their leaders’ goals in the new world
order, and how both factors influence nations’ actions today . . .
Do yourself a favor, read this one. You’ll be glad you did.”
—Cipher Brief
“At its heart, The New Map, by Daniel Yergin, is a book about
power: both in the sense of power as fuel to move cars,
tractor-trailers and oceangoing ships, to run factories and light
up cities; but also power in the sense of political power, that
nations wield to drive their economies toward opening up to world
markets or to becoming more protectionist and insulated, to exert
their influence over the trading patterns of their neighbors, and
to wage war or work for a peaceful and mutually prosperous
co-existence with the rest of the world.” —Houston Chronicle
“A lucid, judicious overview of global energy and its discontents.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Yergin delivers a fascinating and meticulously researched
page-turner . . . Required reading. Another winner from a master.”
—Kirkus (starred review)
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