Bryan Burrough

Author of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

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About the Author

Bryan Burrough was born in 1961 in Temple, Texas. Burrough is a New York Times best-selling author, special correspondent at Vanity Fair, and former Wall Street Journal reporter. Burrough graduated from the University of Missouri's School of Journalism in 1983. While in college, he was a reporter show more for the Columbia Missourian and interned at the Waco Tribune-Herald and the Wall Street Journal's Dallas Bureau. Burrough's bestselling book, Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the F.B.I., 1933-34, is scheduled to be released as a movie in 2009. Burrough is a three-time winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism. He lives in Summit, New Jersey with his wife and their two sons. show less

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Works by Bryan Burrough

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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (1900) 2,007 copies

Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 (2004) 1,031 copies

Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (2015) 392 copies

The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes (2009) 361 copies

Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir (1998) 322 copies

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (2021) 298 copies

Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra (1992) 126 copies

The Demon Next Door (2019) 125 copies

'Til Murder Do Us Part (2019) 2 copies

The Inside Story of the Civil War for the Soul of NBC News 1 copy

"The Perils of Pamela" 1 copy

Ovitz Agonistes 1 copy

Wrogowie publiczni : największa fala przestępczości w Ameryce i narodziny FBI, 1933034 (2009) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Best American Magazine Writing 2010 (2010) — Contributor — 44 copies

Sail Away: Stories of Escaping to Sea (2001) — Contributor — 25 copies

Barbarians at the Gate [1993 TV movie] (1993) — Original book — 14 copies

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Birthdate: 1961-08-13
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: Temple, Texas, USA (birth)
New Jersey, USA
Education: University of Missouri (BA | Journalism)
Occupations: journalist
editor
author
Organizations: The Wall Street Journal
Vanity Fair
Awards and honors: Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism (3)

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The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest…

Listened to the 19 CD's while driving--I find this the best way to get through some of these drier, lengthy tomes. The primary focus is on the lives and families of prominent Texas oil men, known in their day as the "Big Four", Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson. The author is a little heavy on politics, but this it was fun learning about what seems to be a broad reaching and nation shaping bit of history I was completely unaware of.

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The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest… by Bryan Burrough

Very interesting for a Texas modern history buff and anyone looking for insight into oil, politics, and the sadness of some wealthy families.

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