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Author:

Burrough, Bryan, 1961-

Title:

The big rich : the rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes / Bryan Burrough.

Publisher:

Penguin Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiv, 466 p. [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Petroleum industry and trade--Texas--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"There's something down there..." -- The creekologist -- Sid and Clint -- The bigamist and the boom -- The worst of times, the best of times -- The big rich -- Birth of the ultraconservatives -- War and peace -- The New World -- "A clumsy and immeasurable power" -- "Troglodyte, genus Texana" -- The golden years -- Rising sons -- Sun, sex, spaghetti-and murder -- Watergate, Texas-style -- The last boom -- The great silver caper -- The bust.

Summary:

Chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the twentieth century--Texas oil--by weaving together the epic sagas of the industry's Big Four (Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson) in a story of wealth, power, family feuds, scandals, and bankruptcies.

ISBN:

1594201994
9781594201998

OCLC:

(OCoLC)233029440

LCCN:

2008027043

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