The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

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

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.

• The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
• Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States
• MEXICAN WARS FOR INDEPENDENCE
• A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States
• Texas Rich: The Hunt Dynasty, from the Early Oil Days Through the Silver Crash
• The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
• Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (The Lamar Series in Western History)
• Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco