2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Bryan Burrough's 2009 group biography of the four Texas families who struck it rich in the Texas oil boom — Clint Murchison, Sid Richardson, H.L. Hunt, and Roy Cullen — and how they parlayed oil money into political power, cultural influence, and business empires.
A companion volume to Bryan Burrough's Texas oil history — focusing specifically on the independent wildcatters who drilled speculative oil wells outside the major companies' established fields — and the personality type that made them successful.