Example Of Book Review On The Big Rich The Rise And Fall Of The Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes- By Bryan Burrough

Book review

The book by New Your Times bestselling author and three times Gerard Loeb award winner for excellence in financial journalism Bryan Burrough’s, “The Big Rich” has received phenomenal reviews and mega-sales. The enthralling chronicles of Texas oil enjoy massive readership due to its fascinating and emotional account of the soul of Texas. The American author and correspondent for Vanity Fair’s book used a mesmerizing style entwining together the multi-generational epic of the industry’s four wealthiest families. Bryan Burrough was born in 1961 and raised in Temple, Texas. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1983.
The former reporter of Wall Street Journal brings to life Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison and Sid Richard. The “big four” as they were known in their day. They were boastful and quite influential Texas oil magnates. These oil “gods” owned very expensive ranches and socialized with high profile people such as presidents and Hollywood stars. Faultlessly describing their collective rise and fall, The Big Rich is a hugely escapist version that only an author of Burrough’s talents and Texas background could have imagined. The our massively rich oil tycoons drilled gushers of delicious black crude to reap raw political power, voyaged their personal jets over ranches measured in Rhode Islands, siphoned bourbon besides branch on their private isles as they conspired and intrigued to incarcerate entire worldwide markets. 
Born and bred in Temple, Bryan Burrough has done a good job. He professorially illuminates how gushers such as Beaumont’s spindle top at the beginning of the twentieth century impelled a universal transformation from coal to oil that crooked these four men along with other Texas wildcatters such as Glenn McCarthy into the flushest men of their age. The cautious reader will as expected, note that these petrol-barons, as well as their successors, were accountable in large part for the political rise of George W. Bush. 
The truth about Tax oil epic lives up to the myth as Burrough accounts. The big four in company of their peers trade wealth and power in America away from the East Coast, propelled three of their state’s native sons to the White house and largely bankrolling the rise of modern conservation in America. H. L. Hunt who led a bigamist life emerged as the richest man in the entire America having blindfolded and grabbed the very people who discovered it. Clint Murchison and J. Edgar on the other hand entertained royals from United Kingdom in his Mexican haciendas and horse race betting; he also conducted dirty business deals. Roy Cullen, who was an elementary school dropout, spent his millions on reviving wretched taxes GOP. While Sid Richardson, the fun-loving bachelor of the “big four” becoming friend with many presidents such as the most unluckily, Lyndon Johnson.
The Big Four gave birth to children who habitually made more headlines for making more wealth than them. However, bitter family rivalry, scandals, and bankruptcies saw their wealth diminish to nothing. And by the end of 1980s, the era of the Big Rich ended prematurely. Nonetheless, Burrough’s account clearly demonstrates that the philosophical economic, political as well as cultural power and influence of Texas oil still lives on.

Bibliography

Burrough, Bryan. The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. New York: Penguin Press, 2009.