The Big Rich, Bryan Burrough
The Big Rich, Bryan Burrough
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The Big Rich
The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

Author: Bryan Burrough

Narrator: James Jenner

Unabridged: 22 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/10/2009


Synopsis

Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's spellbinding chronicle of Texas oil. Weaving together the multigenerational sagas of the industry's four wealthiest families, Burrough brings to life the men known in their day as the Big Four: Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson, all swaggering Texas oil tycoons who owned sprawling ranches and mingled with presidents and Hollywood stars. Seamlessly charting their collective rise and fall, The Big Rich is a hugely entertaining account that only a writer with Burrough's abilities-and Texas upbringing-could have written.

About Bryan Burrough

Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, and the author of three books, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (With John Helyar), Dragonfly: An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer Space, and Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, he is a three-time winner of the John Hancock Award for excellence in financial journalism. He lives in Summit, New Jersey with his wife Marla and their two sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alexw on July 12, 2019

A fascinating book about the BIG OIL BARONS. One of them took all his oil money and bought the Dallas Cowboys and bedded everyone of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Now that is what I call leading the league in my kind of scoring-ROFLMASO !!......more