The prize: the epic quest for oil, money and power

List of Maps
Prologue
PART I: THE FOUNDERS
Chapter 1: Oil on the Brain: The Beginning
Chapter 2: “Our Plan”: John D. Rockefeller and the Combination of American Oil
Chapter 3: Competitive Commerce
Chapter 4: The New Century
Chapter 5: The Dragon Slain
Chapter 6: The Oil Wars: The Rise of Royal Dutch, the Fall of Imperial Russia
Chapter 7: “Beer and Skittles” in Persia
Chapter 8: The Fateful Plunge
PART II: THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE
Chapter 9: The Blood of Victory: World War I
Chapter 10: Opening the Door on the Middle East: The Turkish Petroleum Company
Chapter 11: From Shortage to Surplus: The Age of Gasoline
Chapter 12: “The Fight for New Production”
Chapter 13: The Flood
Chapter 14: “Friends”—and Enemies
Chapter 15: The Arabian Concessions: The World That Frank Holmes Made
PART III: WAR AND STRATEGY
Chapter 16: Japan’s Road to War
Chapter 17: Germany’s Formula for War
Chapter 18: Japan’s Achilles’ Heel
Chapter 19: The Allies’ War
PART IV: THE HYDROCARBON AGE
Chapter 20: The New Center of Gravity
Chapter 21: The Postwar Petroleum Order
Chapter 22: Fifty-Fifty: The New Deal in Oil
Chapter 23: “Old Mossy” and the Struggle for Iran
Chapter 24: The Suez Crisis
Chapter 25: The Elephants
Chapter 26: OPEC and the Surge Pot
Chapter 27: Hydrocarbon Man
PART V: THE BATTLE FOR WORLD MASTERY
Chapter 28: The Hinge Years: Countries Versus Companies
Chapter 29: The Oil Weapon
Chapter 30: “Bidding for Our Life”
Chapter 31: OPEC’s Imperium
Chapter 32: The Adjustment
Chapter 33: The Second Shock: The Great Panic
Chapter 34: “We’re Going Down”
Chapter 35: Just Another Commodity?
Chapter 36: The Good Sweating: How Low Can It Go?
Chapter 37: Crisis in the Gulf
Epilogue
Chronology
Oil Prices and Production
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
Index