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Oil Man: The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.762233820924
EAN: 9780385238052
ISBN: 0385238053
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: March 01, 1988
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: March 01, 1988
Studio: Doubleday
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Editorial Review:
A rich, rousing gusher of a biography that 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 greatest self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. Here in Oil Man, Michael Wallis, the best-selling historian of the West, present 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 finals days of America's frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world warn, Oil Man is a bold, colorful biography of the original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988.
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Rating:  - Fiction or Fact? Who knows, but it's Western Adventure
I've watched Michael Wallis grow as a writer and I wish he had written this book last instead of first. Now don't get me wrong, it's a rip-roarin' tale of a man with ambition and drive who built a gigantic company and fortune. But it's not the exhaustive, documented last work on Frank Phillips's life.
This is as near to an authorized biography as you can get. Wallis was given full access to all the recorded material on Phillips as well as to a great many people who actually knew the man and ... Read More
Rating:  - Frank Phillips was one helluva man!
Frank Phillips, "THE OIL MAN" is a little known multi millionaire who started with nothing but ambition, and made life pay off! If you like business biography, this is one of the best you'll ever read. I enjoyed totally. I am now rereading the book for the third time!
Rating: - This book is one of the best. Something for everyone.
This book contains something for everyone. Action, adventure, power struggles, romance, money, geology, the wild west, the roaring twenties, family feuds and best of all...it's all true! Frank Phillips grew up a farm boy in Iowa, started a career as a barber and ended up an oil tycoon. This is an easy read and it is obvious that Wallis' research was very thorough. He almost leads you through a day to day account of Frank Phillips' life. And what a life it must have been. A true gambler, ... Read More
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