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The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

by Bryan Burrough

Other books by Bryan Burrough

Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough

Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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Public Enemies
by Bryan Burrough

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson