The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin Yergin explores the uneasy ties between Big Oil and Big Government in his sweeping history of the petroleum industry. In the 1904 presidential campaign, for example, Theodore Roosevelt railed against John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil’s monopolistic practices, even though he had …
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