Texas Rich: The Hunt Dynasty, from the Early Oil Days Through the Silver Crash by Harry Hurt III


Texas Rich: The Hunt Dynasty, from the Early Oil Days Through the Silver Crash
Title : Texas Rich: The Hunt Dynasty, from the Early Oil Days Through the Silver Crash
Author :
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ISBN : 0393300374
ISBN-10 : 0393300374
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover, Paperback
Number of Pages : 448 pages
Publication : W. W. Norton Company; Cover Bent edition (May 17, 1982)

“[Harry Hurt III] tells the Hunt story skillfully, peppering his tale with juicy tidbits His book also holds a neat bit of history about the Texas oil wars of the 1920s and 1930s. ―Julie Salamon, Wall Street Journal

This book is the true story of H. L. Hunt and family. It is not an authorized biography. However, in the course of researching the book and the Texas Monthly and Playboy articles which preceded it, the author was able to interview members of all three branches of the Hunt clan, among them Nelson Bunker Hunt, William Herbert Hunt, Mrs. H. L. (Ruth) Hunt, Ray Hunt, and Hugh S. Hunt. Hurt also conducted over 250 interviews with relatives, friends, associates, avowed enemies, and present and former employees of the Hunts, and studies over 10,000 pages of court documents, film transcripts, media clippings, books, and photographs by and about the Hunts. This piece of writing is the product of that research.

Texas Rich: The Hunt Dynasty, from the Early Oil Days Through the Silver Crash Reviews

  • Lee Cross

    Entertaining. Better than fiction.

  • Bob Starnes

    Excellent book detailing this patriach and his offspring. If you are interested in the history of the great Texas oil boom and one of its greatest characters you need to read this book. You will understand Bunker Hunts' great comment " a billion dollars just isn't worth

  • William Woolston

    Everything as I expected

  • Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr.

    Great.

  • Suzanne J. Winn

    Good balance in writing about a complex & gifted man.

  • Esther Austin

    This is a great book about the Hunt Family. Book is as seller described and arrived timely. Great seller highly recommend!

  • Jackson Lane

    Good quality!!

  • TLR

    A well researched account of right wing Texas oilman H.L. Hunt and his family. Hunt is described as "a bigamist, a family man, a conservationist, a big oil producer, a political mover and shaker, a self absorbed writer of sentimental love poetry. But, at heart, he was still