2024-09-18
1 小时 27 分钟Today, I have the pleasure to chat with Daniel Juergen.
He is literally the world's leading authority on energy.
His book, The Prize, won the Pulitzer Prize about the entire history of oil.
His most recent book is The New Map, Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations.
Welcome to the podcast, Dr.
Juergen.
Glad to be with you.
My first question is...
A book like The Prize, it's literally a history of the entire 20th century, right?
Because everything in the last 150 years involves oil that's happened since then.
How does one begin to write a book like that?
I think you begin by not realizing what you're doing.
I mean, I agreed to do that book and I said I'd do it in two years.
It took me seven.
And the stories just became so compelling and it became woven in with the history of the 20th century.
And the funny thing was that Some years before that,
a publisher had flown up from New York to see me when I was teaching at Harvard and said,
she had a very interesting idea for a book.
And I said, what?
And she said, a history of the 20th century.