The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World

A look at the political battle between the state and the marketplace examines the collapse of the Soviet Union and deregulation

A writer of international renown, Daniel Yergin is the author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, the global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Eccles Prize that was made into an eight-part PBS series. He is also the author of Shattered Peace, the classic account of the Cold War, and coauthor of the bestseller Energy Future and Russia 2010. Yergin is president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, the foremost analytic firm in the energy industries, and vice-chairman of Global Decisions Group, which provides economic analysis on major global markets. He received a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Washington, D.C.