Oil Man: The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum

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. Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the greatest self-made business tycoons of the 20th century. Here, Michael Wallis, the 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 America¹s frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world wars, Oil Man is a bold, colorful biography of the original American entrepreneur. ³A masterful account of the man and the shaping of Oklahoma¹s largest corporation. The book is superior.² B&W photos.Wallis, Michael is the author of 'Oil Man: The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum' with ISBN 9780756766320 and ISBN 075676632X.