Iconoclasts Of The Oil Patch

摘要

In The Big Rich, Bryan Burrough has produced an elegantly interwoven chronicle of the lives of mid-20th-century independent oil barons and their families. These outsize characters-the inspiration for such movies as Giant (1956), featuring James Dean-helped shift political power and wealth away from the East Coast establishment and deeplyrnaffected the American psyche. Yet they are largely forgotten.rnBurrough is out to change that. A Texas native and co-author of Barbarians at the Gate, the classic saga of the late-1980s RJR Nabisco takeover, Burrough mines his own reporting, old newspaper clips, court records, and earlier books to conjure up the experiences and careers of Roy Cullen, Clint Mur-chison, Sid Richardson, and H.L. Hunt, known in their day as the Big Four.