Bryan Burrough (71 page)
Authors: The Big Rich: The Rise,Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
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Heale, M. J.
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H.L. and Lyda: Growing up in the H. L. Hunt and Lyda Bunker Hunt Family as Told by Their Eldest Daughter.
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H.L. and Lyda: Growing up in the H. L. Hunt and Lyda Bunker Hunt Family as Told by Their Eldest Daughter.
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Hunt, H. L.
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Hunt Heritage.
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Weekly Strength.
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Why Not Speak.
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Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901.
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Blood Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK.
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King of the Wildcatters: The Life and Times of Tom Slick, 1883-1930.
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Miller, Ann, with Norma Lee Browning.
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Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1972.
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Miller, Jeff.
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First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty.
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Moncrief, Charlie.
Wildcatters: The True Story of How Conspiracy, Greed, and the IRS Almost Destroyed a Legendary Texas Oil Family.
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The Permian Basin: Petroleum Empire of the Southwest: Era of Advancement.
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O’Connor, Richard.
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Olien, Roger M.
From Token to Triumph: The Texas Republicans Since 1920.
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Dallas: SMU Press, 1982.
Olien, Roger M., and Diana Davids Olien.
Easy Money: Oil Promoters and Investors in the Jazz Age.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Easy Money: Oil Promoters and Investors in the Jazz Age.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
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Life in the Oil Fields.
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Life in the Oil Fields.
Austin: Texas Monthly, 1986.
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Oil & Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Oil & Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
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Oil Booms: Social Change in Five Texas Towns.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
Oil Booms: Social Change in Five Texas Towns.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
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Wildcatters: Texas Independent Oilmen.
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Austin: Texas Monthly, 1984.
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El Paso: Permian Press, 1972.
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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK.
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Saga of Wealth: The Rise of the Texas Oilman.
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The Texas Regulars.
Garland, Tex.: Hannibal Books, 2001.
Saga of Wealth: The Rise of the Texas Oilman.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1978. Pressler, Paul.
The Texas Regulars.
Garland, Tex.: Hannibal Books, 2001.
Reaves, William E., Jr.
Texas Art and a Wildcatter’s Dream: Edgar B. Davis and the San Antonio Art League.
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Texas Art and a Wildcatter’s Dream: Edgar B. Davis and the San Antonio Art League.
College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1998.
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The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy.
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Oil! The Titan of the Southwest.
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The Lusty Texans of Dallas.
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A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts of the White House.
New York: Dell, 1973.
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The Roosevelts of Hyde Park: An Untold Story.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973.
The Roosevelts of Hyde Park: An Untold Story.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973.
Rundell, Walter, Jr.
Early Texas Oil: A Photographic History, 1866-1936.
College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1977.
Early Texas Oil: A Photographic History, 1866-1936.
College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1977.
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The Rise of the Right.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much.
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The Regulation of Natural Gas: Policy and Politics, 1938-1978.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.
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A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty.
New York: Random House, 2004.
The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty.
New York: Random House, 2004.
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True Legacy: The Biography of a Unique Texas Oilman... W. A. ‘Monty’ Moncrief.
Privately published, 1982.
True Legacy: The Biography of a Unique Texas Oilman... W. A. ‘Monty’ Moncrief.
Privately published, 1982.
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
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Spindletop Unwound: A True Story of Greed, Ambition and Murder in the First Degree.
Plano: Republic of Texas Press, 1997.
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Texas Big Rich: Exploits, Eccentricities and Fabulous Fortunes Won and Lost.
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Texas Big Rich: Exploits, Eccentricities and Fabulous Fortunes Won and Lost.
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1990.
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Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context.
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The Accidental President.
New York: Grossman, 1967.
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The Oil Follies of 1970-1980: How the Petroleum Industry Stole the Show (And Much More Besides).
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The Oil Follies of 1970-1980: How the Petroleum Industry Stole the Show (And Much More Besides).
New York: Anchor Press, 1983.
Singerman, Philip.
Red Adair: An American Hero.
London: Bloomsbury, 1989.
Red Adair: An American Hero.
London: Bloomsbury, 1989.
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