02082cam a2200397 a 4500 43320 43320 BJBSDDR 20230410115538.0 ta 931222s2009 nyu 000 1ceng 9781594201998 1594201994 NZ1 12817703 CDX 8439280 AU@ 000043189535 (OCoLC)ocn233029440 (OCoLC)233029440 (OCoLC)233549216 DLC eng DLC eng n-us-tx HD 9567 B972b 2009 338.2/7280922764 Burrough, Bryan, 1961- The big rich : the rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes / Bryan Burrough. New York : Penguin Press, 2009. xiv, 466 p. [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. "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. 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. Petroleum industry and trade Texas Biography. Industria y comercio del petróleo 15414 Industria del petróleo 7104 Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0822/2008027043.html Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008027043-d.html lcc BK JP 0 0 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 0 HD 9567 B972b 2009 00000072854 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 BK