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“Bryan Burrough has long been one of this nation’s beststorytellers, but he has outdone himself with his tour de force,The Big Rich. Set amid the rough and tumble of the Texas oilfields and stretching to the halls of political power inWashington, this epic tale reveals the hidden undercurrents ofmodern American history that flowed from four families ofunimaginable wealth and recklessness. With an unerring eye fordetail, Burrough dissects their lives and histories, starting withthe patriarchs—struggling, poorly educated men who might haveremained forever unknown if not for their success at pulling blackooze from the ground. The Big Rich lays bare their arroganceand aspirations, their principles and hypocrisy, their daring andfoolishness, taking readers deep inside a world of affluence thathas remained secret for far too long. It is, quite simply, atriumph.”
—Kurt Eichenwald, author of The Informant and Conspiracyof Fools

“It’s hard to imagine a greater literary marriage than that of theoil barons of Texas and Bryan Burrough. On the one hand, you have acollection of gargantuan personalities who in the 1920s struck itrich and then, in the decades that followed, used their wealth totransform American business, culture and politics. On the other,you have an author—and native Texan—who writes, as he always does,with enormous insight and panache. The Big Rich has all thehallmarks of a classic American saga.”
—David Margolick, author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. MaxSchmeling, and a World on the Brink

“The Big Rich, a 400 page opus on the oil-powered rise ofthe Texas elite, has so many characters and entertaining subplotsit reads like a petroleum-based Lord of the Rings. This is,of course, a compliment… In Burrough’s captivating story, done withthe same keen eye on excess as his corporate classic Barbariansat the Gate, it’s clear these men cast a shadow so wide theycontributed more to our economic, national and political identitiesthan almost any other titans of industry.”
— GQ

“Bryan Burrough has long been one of this nation’s best
storytellers, but he has outdone himself with his tour de force,
The Big Rich. Set amid the rough and tumble of the Texas oil
fields and stretching to the halls of political power in
Washington, this epic tale reveals the hidden undercurrents of
modern American history that flowed from four families of
unimaginable wealth and recklessness. With an unerring eye for
detail, Burrough dissects their lives and histories, starting with
the patriarchs—struggling, poorly educated men who might have
remained forever unknown if not for their success at pulling black
ooze from the ground. The Big Rich lays bare their arrogance
and aspirations, their principles and hypocrisy, their daring and
foolishness, taking readers deep inside a world of affluence that
has remained secret for far too long. It is, quite simply, a
triumph.” 
—Kurt Eichenwald, author of The Informant and Conspiracy
of Fools 
 
“It’s hard to imagine a greater literary marriage than that of the
oil barons of Texas and Bryan Burrough. On the one hand, you have a
collection of gargantuan personalities who in the 1920s struck it
rich and then, in the decades that followed, used their wealth to
transform American business, culture and politics. On the other,
you have an author—and native Texan—who writes, as he always does,
with enormous insight and panache. The Big Rich has all the
hallmarks of a classic American saga.” 
—David Margolick, author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max
Schmeling, and a World on the Brink 
 
“The Big Rich, a 400 page opus on the oil-powered rise of
the Texas elite, has so many characters and entertaining subplots
it reads like a petroleum-based Lord of the Rings. This is,
of course, a compliment… In Burrough’s captivating story, done with
the same keen eye on excess as his corporate classic Barbarians
at the Gate, it’s clear these men cast a shadow so wide they
contributed more to our economic, national and political identities
than almost any other titans of industry.” 
— GQ 
 
“Lively…impeccably rendered… Burrough has done estimable new
reporting, showing links between Texas money and national politics
that stretch back far earlier than the days of Lyndon B.
Johnson.” 
—Mimi Schwartz, The New York Times Book Review 
 
“A Lone Star epic… Burrough introduces his protagonists with a
novelist’s eye for detail. … Though this book forms an epitaph for
a bygone era, it’s not without relevance today.” 
—Bloomberg 
 
“It would be hard to ask for a literally or figuratively rich cast
of characters than those in The Big Rich… Nicely detailed
and suspenseful.” 
—Harry Hurt III, The New York Times Business Section 
 
“Eminently readable.” 
—Texas Monthly 
 
“Winning…well researched and briskly told. Burrough has produced an
indispensable guide to the knotty fascination that Texas spurs in
the imagination.” 
— BookForum 
 
“Here at Capitol Annex, we get a fair number of books to review.
Rarely do we come across one that we can so highly recommend…
The Big Rich is simply a ‘must read.” 
— The Capitol Annex 
 
“Capitalism at its most colorful oozes across the pages of this
engrossing study of independent oil men… This is a portrait of
capitalism as white-knuckle risk taking, yielding fruitful
discoveries for the fathers, but only sterile speculation for the
sons— a story that resonates with today’s economic upheaval.” 
—Publishers Weekly (starred review) 
 
“The most improbable people of all must live in Texas and, in the
good old days, they hunted for oil, found it, sold it, made
fortunes and eventually blew most of it. In The Big Rich,
Bryan Burrough tells a wonderful tale of the four biggest Texas
millionaires.” 
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
 
“Burrough…invokes a tale of bitter competition, family feuds,
booms, and bankruptcies that more than lives up to the
legends.” 
—Booklist (starred review) 
 
“An entertaining look at the larger-than-life histories of the
incomprehensibly rich and powerful.” 
—Library Journal 
 
“Full of schadenfreude and speculation—and solid, timely history
too.” 
— Kirkus Reviews 
 
“First-class entertainment.” 
—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post 
 
“What’s not to enjoy about a book full of monstrous egos,
unimaginable sums of money and the punishment of greed and
shortsightedness by the march of events?…[The Big Rich] is a
ripping… read from start to finish. At the end of it those of less
ample fortunes will feel their Schadenfreude richly
indulged.” 
—The Economist

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内容简介

"What's not to enjoy about a book full of monstrous egos, unimaginable sums of money, and the punishment of greed and shortsightedness?"

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.

作者简介

Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, and the author of numerous bestselling books including Public Enemies and Barbarians at the Gate.

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Bestselling author and "Vanity Fair" special correspondent Burrough chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the 20th century--Texas oil.

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