Oil Man: The Story Of Frank Phillips & The Birth Of Phillips Petroleum
by Wallis, Michael
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- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0312131356
- ISBN 13
- 9780312131357
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About This Item
New York: St. Martin's Griffin. Fine. 1995. 1st Trade Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. 1.4 x 9.1 x 5.9 Inches. 480 pages. 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.<br><br>Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the greatest self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. Here in <i>Oil Man</i>, 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, <i>Oil Man</i> is a bold, colorful biography of the original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988.<br> .
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- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 607827
- Title
- Oil Man: The Story Of Frank Phillips & The Birth Of Phillips Petroleum
- Author
- Wallis, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st Trade Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0312131356
- ISBN 13
- 9780312131357
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- History, Business, Professionals & Academics, Biographies & Memoirs, Production & Operations, Management & Leadership, Business & Investing, Petrochemical, Chemical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography;
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