Description
This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created.
Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. In Oil Man, Michael Wallis, a best-selling historian of the West, presents Phillips against a pageant of luminaries and outlaws that includes Will Rogers, Harry Truman, Edna Ferber, J. Paul Getty, and Pretty Boy Floyd.
Spanning the final days of America's frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world wars, Oil Man is a bold, colorful biography of an original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988, the book captures the life and times of an American hero.Author: Michael Wallis
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 09/04/2014
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780806146768
ISBN10: 0806146761
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Business
- Technology & Engineering | Petroleum
- Technology & Engineering | Power Resources | Fossil Fuels