Daniel Yergin to Discuss His New Book THE NEW MAP via Zoom (9/16)
Politics & Prose Live presents Daniel Yergin and Susan B. Glasser from The New Yorker in conversation about Yergin’s latest book, THE NEW MAP: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Penguin Press), via Zoom on Wednesday, September 16 at 8:00 pm (ET).
This book presents a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future. A master storyteller and global energy expert, Yergin takes the reader on an utterly riveting and timely journey across the world’s “new map.” He illuminates the great energy and geopolitical questions on the eve of the historic 2020 Presidential election and the profound challenges that lie ahead.
Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, and Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War, and coauthor of Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. He is vice chairman of IHS Markit, one of the leading information and research firms in the world, a member of the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior trustee of the Brookings Institution, and has served on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under the last four presidential administrations.
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