Author: Stanley Crawford
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468307975
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A billionaire sets out to teach his grandchildren some life lessons in this sharply funny novel by “a brilliant, original writer” (Ann Beattie, author of The Accomplished Guest). Bewildered by the odious liberal tendencies of his son-in-law, Chip, Leon Tuggs, self-made arch-capitalist billionaire, inventor of the ubiquitous and environmentally hazardous Thingie, and author of the influential General Theory of Industrial Sex, decides to rescue his grandchildren from a life of guilt, indecision, and existential anxiety, by educating them in the way the world actually works and telling them, for their own good, the things no teacher or parent in our politically correct and morally relative world could ever venture to say . . . Petroleum Man is a hilariously scathing satire that takes on both sides of some of the raging debates of our times between Democrats and Republicans, haves and have-nots, trickle-down conservatives and bleeding-heart liberals, environmentalists and industrialists—a comic classic from the author of Gascoyne and Some Instructions.
Petroleum Man
Author: Stanley Crawford
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468307975
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A billionaire sets out to teach his grandchildren some life lessons in this sharply funny novel by “a brilliant, original writer” (Ann Beattie, author of The Accomplished Guest). Bewildered by the odious liberal tendencies of his son-in-law, Chip, Leon Tuggs, self-made arch-capitalist billionaire, inventor of the ubiquitous and environmentally hazardous Thingie, and author of the influential General Theory of Industrial Sex, decides to rescue his grandchildren from a life of guilt, indecision, and existential anxiety, by educating them in the way the world actually works and telling them, for their own good, the things no teacher or parent in our politically correct and morally relative world could ever venture to say . . . Petroleum Man is a hilariously scathing satire that takes on both sides of some of the raging debates of our times between Democrats and Republicans, haves and have-nots, trickle-down conservatives and bleeding-heart liberals, environmentalists and industrialists—a comic classic from the author of Gascoyne and Some Instructions.
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468307975
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A billionaire sets out to teach his grandchildren some life lessons in this sharply funny novel by “a brilliant, original writer” (Ann Beattie, author of The Accomplished Guest). Bewildered by the odious liberal tendencies of his son-in-law, Chip, Leon Tuggs, self-made arch-capitalist billionaire, inventor of the ubiquitous and environmentally hazardous Thingie, and author of the influential General Theory of Industrial Sex, decides to rescue his grandchildren from a life of guilt, indecision, and existential anxiety, by educating them in the way the world actually works and telling them, for their own good, the things no teacher or parent in our politically correct and morally relative world could ever venture to say . . . Petroleum Man is a hilariously scathing satire that takes on both sides of some of the raging debates of our times between Democrats and Republicans, haves and have-nots, trickle-down conservatives and bleeding-heart liberals, environmentalists and industrialists—a comic classic from the author of Gascoyne and Some Instructions.
Petroleum Man
Author: Stanley G. Crawford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Leon Tuggs--self-made arch-capitalist billionaire-- decides to rescue his grandchildren from a his son-in-law's liberal leanings. He tells them how the world actually works, things that no teacher or parent in a politically correct and morally relative world could ever venture to say.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Leon Tuggs--self-made arch-capitalist billionaire-- decides to rescue his grandchildren from a his son-in-law's liberal leanings. He tells them how the world actually works, things that no teacher or parent in a politically correct and morally relative world could ever venture to say.
Oil Man
Author: Michael Wallis
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806146974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806146974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
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.
Petroleum Man
Author: Stanley Crawford
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781585677498
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Petroleum Man takes Swiftean malice and delight in exposing the vanity and frailty of some of the most popularly held prejudices of our times.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781585677498
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Petroleum Man takes Swiftean malice and delight in exposing the vanity and frailty of some of the most popularly held prejudices of our times.
The Petroleum World
Petroleum
Author: Chester Garfield Gilbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The authors analyze, discuss, and give an overview of petroleum resources and the petroleum industry in the United States in the early 20th Century.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The authors analyze, discuss, and give an overview of petroleum resources and the petroleum industry in the United States in the early 20th Century.
Petroleum Age
The Petroleum Gazette
Author: Frank F. Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Oil and Gas Man's Magazine
Petroleum Times
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description