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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
Categories: Nonfiction, History, US History, Modern History
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.