On this episode of Our American Stories, in the early 1980s, nearly everyone in the oil and gas industry believed producing natural gas from shale was a waste of time and money. George Mitchell disagreed. For 17 years, he poured hundreds of millions of dollars into an idea that even his own executives wanted to abandon, convinced it would secure America's energy future.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel Yergin, author of The New Map, joins Dan Steward, Kent Bowker, and others to tell the remarkable story of George Mitchell's persistence and the shale revolution it unleashed.

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