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How Texans Went from Cowboys to 'Zillionaires' - Bryan Burrough

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2009 · News & Politics

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Vanity Fair writer Bryan Burrough discusses how the Texan stereotype changed from cattle and six-shooters to "nouveau riche Texas zillionaires."

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Bryan Burrough talks about his book, The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes.

Bryan Burrough, author of Barbarians at the Gate and a Texan himself, traces the accumulation of almost unimaginable wealth by four Texas families during the 1920s.

The families then used their fortunes to influence commerce, culture, and politics -- most notably, by financing the modern conservative movement.

Bryan Burrough - Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, and the author of three books, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (With John Helyar), Dragonfly: An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer Space, and Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, he is a three-time winner of the John Hancock Award for excellence in financial journalism. He lives in Summit, New Jersey with his wife Marla and their two sons.

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