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The big rich : the rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burrough, Bryan, 1961-
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Series:New York Times best sellers.
Subjects:
Petroleum industry and trade > Texas > Biography.
Texas.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • "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.