The Last Optimist: Harold Hamm, Icon of the Oilfields

Mark P. Mills talks with Harold Hamm, founder and former CEO, now Executive Chairman of Continental Resources.

Hamm, one of the key pioneers of the American shale revolution, has written a book about his life’s journey and the critical role of the U.S. oil and gas industry. Game Changer: Our Fifty-Year Mission to Secure America’s Energy Independence (Forefront Books, 2023).

About The Last Optimist

The roaring 2020s are upon us and the Manhattan Institute’s senior fellow Mark P. Mills is here to make sense of it. In The Last Optimist, Mills applies his knowledge as an author, businessman, and physicist to explore issues of the day and host insightful conversations with leading thinkers and innovators.