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035 _a(OCoLC)ocn233029440
035 _a(OCoLC)233029440
_z(OCoLC)233549216
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_beng
_cDLC
041 _aeng
043 _an-us-tx
050 1 4 _aHD 9567
_bB972b 2009
082 0 0 _a338.2/7280922764
100 1 _aBurrough, Bryan,
_d1961-
245 1 4 _aThe big rich :
_bthe rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes /
_cBryan Burrough.
260 _aNew York :
_bPenguin Press,
_c2009.
300 _axiv, 466 p. [16] p. of plates :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a"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.
520 _aChronicles 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.
650 0 _aPetroleum industry and trade
_zTexas
_vBiography.
650 4 _aIndustria y comercio del petrĂ³leo
_915414
650 4 _aIndustria del petrĂ³leo
_97104
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0822/2008027043.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008027043-d.html
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946 _aJP