Yergin is arguably best known for his fourth book,[1] The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1991).[2] It became a number-one bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1992 and the Eccles Prize for the best book on economics for a general audience,[32] selling around 700,000 copies[4] in 17 languages.[33] The book was adapted into a PBS/BBC series[5] seen by around 100 million viewers both domestically and internationally,[4][6] with Yergin as the principal storyteller.[34] His next book was Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World (1993), written with Thane Gustafson, which provided scenarios for the development of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.[35]