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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.
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Michael Wallis is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including Route 66: The Mother Road and Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
John Gibson Phillips, Jr., is the grandson of Frank Phillips.
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John Gibson Phillips, Jr., is the grandson of Frank Phillips.
$18.95. biog Phillips was the prototypical oil man: hard working, fun loving, powerful, flamboyant, and richthe ideal subject for a book. But this is not an ideal biographyit looks closely at Phillips, but not too hard. The author eschews a rigorous examination of his subject's life and work, giving us the light-and-easy approach instead. Frequently, Wallis resorts to cliches, and lacks a sense of proportion, emphasizing Phillips's social life as much as his business dealings. We learn much more than we want to about the high life at the Phillips ranch and much less than we should about the structure and management of Phillips Petroleum. Public libraries in Oklahoma will want this. Kevin M. Rosswurm, Mount Vernon P.L., N.Y.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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