Book TV: Bryan Burrough "The Big Rich"

Investigative journalist Bryan Burrough presents a history of the four wealthiest oil families in Texas in The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. Mr. Burrough details the lives of H.L. Hunt, Roy Cullen, Sid Richardson and Clint Murchison as they accumulated wealth and ascended from local to national figures. Bryan Burrough discusses his book with Republican Representative Joe Barton who represents the Sixth District of Texas.

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[abumarwan91]

@themeaningoflife38 hey im reading this book and i was wondering if you can help me out with it thanks email me if you can be of any help marwan_hadwan@yahoo.com thanks;)

[intrascoobz]

@bmwstox Talking about destroying , diminishing and dominating! Let's talk texas rangers! Not the team. You know! Up until 1950's mexicans were being hung for their demands for more pay. If you lived in northern texas , and you weren't white? you better not look in their eyes or you were shot dead! Texas men have always taken for free what isn't theirs. European taught thought? The mexicans' story was rarely heard unless from the old folks who know! I'll bet they voted texas in2 gutter!

[themeaningoflife38]

American Fascists "claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."

-Vice President Henry A. Wallace 1944

[themeaningoflife38]

The Danger Of American Fascism

"With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information..."

[themeaningoflife38]

@bmwstox Yeah Nixon,Reagan,Bush sr & Bush jr are the one who destroyed the country.Bush Jr lost MILLIONS of American jobs.

The right wing fascists havent done one good thing for this country and people like you blindly follow them and believe all the LIES

[bmwstox]

@themeaningoflife38 -- Yeah well liberal democrats like HUSSEIN obama are destroying our great nation. We need strong Texas men to stand up to these liberal cowards who want the USA to be a free for all. In 2012 there will be no more dems in the White House as they will all voted back to the gutter :)

[themeaningoflife38]

HL Hunt was a right wing fascist & member of John Birch Society aka nazis.Many believe that Hunt helped fund the murder of JFK.Hunt was responsible for the JFK "Wanted for Treason" ad placed in Dallas newpapers.

Clint Murchison was best friends with corrupt FBI director J Edgar Hoover,both men HATED JFK & RFK.