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Author:	Bryan Burrough	Publisher:	Penguin Pr
1723687:	1594201994	Subject:	History
ISBN-13:	9781594201998	Sub-Category:	--
Format:	Hardback	Language:	English
Publication Year:	2009	Condition:	New
Special Attributes:	--

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Bryan Burrough's Texas tale follows the rise and fall of four families whose wealth, status, and power erupted and crashed like great geysers of crude oil. At their height, the Cullens, the Murchisons, the Richardsons, and the Hunts could buy anything or anyone, and they lived above the law. One of them was a public bigamist, openly supporting three separate families, while another had none other than J. Edgar Hoover in his financial pocket. Their boldness and ambition helped define the image of the Lone Star State, their money and political prowess helped put three different presidents in office, and their wild investments nearly single-handedly crashed Wall Street. However, as the patriarchs of the families yielded to the next generation, rising costs, poor investments, and the influx of oil from the Middle East resulted in an astonishing reversal of fortunes.
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Length:	466 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	1.5 in.
Weight:	28.0 oz.

Publisher's Note
"An epic account of how Texas oil transformed wealth and power in America is presented through the stories of the state's four most influential oil families, tracing how they rose from modest backgrounds, shaped the government, and bankrolled the nation's largest rise of modern conservatism. 125,000 first printing."
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"It is one of Burrough's aims in THE BIG RICH to separate truth from stereotype, a task he performs meticulously and occasionally amusingly." (02/01/2009) "Burrough brings each of his outsized subjects brilliantly to life, pitching their individual epics against a grand narrative of rise and decline." (03/16/2009)

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