Then comes the history of places, where the ingathering of people and classes in a single city or state makes a historical whole bigger than any one face within it.

NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces

Daniel Yergin, in his latest and arguably most promethean work, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, infuses a rich ingathering of information and analysis with the narrative power of a McMurtry, the human interest of an O.

FORBES: Daniel Yergin's The Quest: Human Ingenuity, Passion, the Fall of Caliphatism and the Rise of Prosperity