Oil Man

Oil Man The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780806146768
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 338.76223382092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xxiv, 480
Weight: 753g
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 28mm