Macrae Hanke’s Reviews > The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power > Status Update

“Standard Oil (SO) was divided…The largest of them…Standard Oil of New Jersey… eventually became Exxon...Next largest…was SO of New York, which ultimately became Mobil. There was Standard Oil (California)…became Chevron; SO of Ohio…became the American arm of BP; SO of Indiana..of Sun(co).“ -p94

Quicker than you can say oil, Yergin recounts the origin of almost every major petroleum company today.🤯

It continues to surprise me how difficult it is to put down a book that outwardly looks as though it belongs in graduate study textbooks. The depth of research is astounding at every turn. Five paragraph sections prompt incredulous statements akin to “This section alone could warrant an entire novel!” Blink and you’ll miss the rise and fall of empires, presidents, and kings.